Word: steinberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Testing. In Baltimore, Liquor Dealer Albert Steinberg reluctantly handed over $100 to a holdup man who tossed back the cash and said: "I don't want your money. I just wanted to see how much guts...
Chopin: Concerto No. 1 In E Minor (Alexander Brailowsky, piano, with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Artur Rubinstein's magnificent performance (also for Victor) is a mark for most pianists to shoot at; Brailowsky's softer and sometimes soggy version just misses. Recording: excellent...
Antimacassars & Battleships. In the center of the exhibition, a specially commissioned mural by New Yorker Cartoonist Saul Steinberg put the modern designer's dilemma into squiggly perspective. In one panel, Artist Steinberg had drawn a cross-section of a block of walk-up apartments: "modern" studios sandwiched between lead-heavy Jacobean dinettes and cluttered Victorian parlors. His stark plywood chairs were ornamented with fussy crocheted antimacassars, his baby carriages fashioned like battleships. The level-headed modern designer, set loose among America's gingerbread and fake Tudor suburbs and neo-Renaissance row houses, was in danger, according to Steinberg...
...Detroit show, successfully avoiding the fake modern Steinberg abhorred, managed to make its biggest point: with a sharp eye and a little persistence the average shopper could find enough handsome, well-designed contemporary furnishings to fill any modern home...
...Steinberg spoke on "The Public's Stake in New Medical Research," stressing the effect of the atom in the medical field...