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...four strands of tone. Today quartet playing has become so distinct a profession that no one but a specialist with years of experience would think of competing for big-league honors. Few quartet players ever even attempt to excel as soloists, and very few of the world's top-rank soloists make good quartet players...
...Bandsman. But Ernesto Lecuona's biggest popularity lies south, of the Tropic of Cancer. There his eminence is fabulous. Cuba has two other top-rank songwriters: Moises Simons (The Peanut Vendor) and Eliseo Grenet (Mama Ines). But Lecuona's 300-odd songs and piano pieces, to which Latin Americans have been listening for more than two decades, have become as indelible a part of their culture as the Spanish and Portuguese tongues. Several years ago, while Lecuona was safely on his plantation near Havana, a businessman named Ricardo Lecuona was killed in a plane crash in Colombia. While...
Benny's ad-libbing ability was obvious to most of his soldier audiences on his recent 32,000-mile U.S.O. tour. But not a single top-rank U.S. comedian could get by for long without his stable of gagmen. The comic demands of regular radio appearances are too heavy for one man's wits. This fact confronted U.S.O. with a traffic problem when it decided to transport U.S. comedians abroad to entertain the troops. The gagmen would have made just so much extra baggage...
British officials who interrogated Hess found him hopelessly saturated with Nazi propaganda. If Hess could be taken as accurate evidence, even top-rank Nazis lived in the unreal world their propaganda had created...
Personable, witty Erwin Panofsky came to the U.S. from Germany in 1934. At the University of Hamburg he taught art history, made an international reputation as top-rank specialist in several branches of his subject (notably medieval German sculpture, Dürer, Michelangelo, the Italian Baroque). From visiting professorships at New York University and Princeton, he went to the recently established (1933) Institute for Advanced Study...