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...Liszt, at 36, amazingly gave up his fabulous concert playing, started an entirely new musical life during which he earned not a cent from playing or teaching. He had accepted a position as conductor and musical director to the Grand-Ducal Court at Weimar. To Liszt that meant two things???presenting the music of Wagner who was then penniless and unrecognized; composing music...
...merchandising and make railroads their specialty. Oris P. is 50, Mantis J. is 47; they are both bachelors; and, though some observers maintain that Oris P. is the Planner and Mantis J. is the Doer, they pride themselves upon being equal in all things and to share all things???even a reputed fraternal check book?in common...
Getting elected President, after receiving the nomination, is a five-month job. Learning to be President?to do the right things at the right times, and not to do the wrong things???is a much longer...
VARIETY or THINGS???Max Beerbohm? Knopf...
...first-floor room on Baker Street, London. Things??? fresh tobacco and old pipes, bottles of acids and a violin case? seemed to be in disorder, but one had a feeling that their owner could find them, even though blindfolded. Dr. Watson and Billy, the page, were worrying around the room because the owner, Sherlock Holmes, had gone to bed with instructions that he wanted dinner "at seven-thirty, the day after tomorrow...