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Lithopinion's sprightly new look should not have been a surprise; the New York local's dynamic president, Edward D. Swayduck, 52, has been breaking labor's rules for years. One of the most successful and least conformist of union leaders, Swayduck is a tireless advocate of a new philosophy for labor. He is all for automation, all against featherbedding. His union pours money into research on improvements in the lithographic processes, then prods laggard management into adopting them. As a result of increased productivity in its industry, the 9,000-man union local is not only...
...this cause, Julius Rudel has been tireless. A Viennese refugee from Hitler, he fled to the U.S. in 1938, earned a degree in conducting from Manhattan's Mannes College of Music. When the New York City Opera got going, so did Rudel, then 22. He was everything from rehearsal pianist to curtain puller to stand-in for ailing members of the chorus. In 1957, after a clash between the opera board and Erich Leinsdorf (who followed Halasz and Joseph Rosenstock) left the company without a conductor, Rudel was appointed director. The decision was made, says one board member, partly...
...CAME IN FROM THE COLD. This strong, stark adaptation of John le Carre's novel has Richard Burton giving his best screen performance as a burnt-out British agent sent to set a diabolical trap for a tireless foe (Oskar Werner) in East Germany...
...Tireless Rounds. There was chamber music with some of the "local talent" like Heifetz and Piatigorsky. Once, the story goes, Albert Einstein began to play a violin and piano sonata with Rubinstein. Einstein missed a cue in one passage and came in four beats late. They started again, and again Einstein flubbed. They began once more, and the great scientist again missed the cue. Finally, the exasperated Rubinstein cried, "For God's sake, Professor, can't you even count up to four...
...while, he continued his tireless round of concertizing. To this day, Rubinstein boasts proudly that he has never canceled a performance. Touring Israel in 1952 he smashed his right hand in a bureau drawer, incapacitating his fourth finger. He played the concert anyway, sticking to his difficult program (which included a piano version of Stravinsky's Petrushka), refingering the pieces as he went along. Everywhere he went, he sold out the house, eventually commanded $6,000 a performance...