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...Manhattan-based Obolensky makes a living. When Alexander's department store in Manhattan decided to compete with rival Ohrbach's in copying original Paris dresses, they automatically turned to Obolensky, who pulled off a smash fashion show using models named Baroness Fiona Thyssen and Princess Ira von Furstenburg. "They were such good girls to do a favor," says Obolensky...
...disquieted by such a torrent of activities. Impresario Sol Hurok, 79, shakes his head and says: "I think any artist should concentrate on one thing at a time. There is an old Russian saying: 'With one bottom, you can't be at two weddings.' " And Herbert von Karajan, 59, one of the last conductors bred in the old gradual apprenticeship, commented on the new conductors to a friend recently: "I'm afraid they jumped from elementary school to the university without going through the intervening stage of high school"-implying that at some point...
...undoubtedly will write a new chapter in the history of the art. Before the great age of conductors, Composer Robert Schumann spoke of the orchestra as a republic, not subject to higher authority. But the giants of the last generation, following such 19th century models as Richard Wagner, Hans von Bülow, Artur Nikisch and Gustav Mahler, acted...
...Faculty members of the subcommittee include Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, assistant dean of the Faculty; Dean Watson; F. Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38; and Masters Charles W. Dunn and Zeph Stewart...
...Von Salzen ended this, and there has been no evidence of character assassination within the Executive Committee of the Harvard Young Republican Club this year. Members do snipe at each other, but the petty grievances would hardly interest outsiders. The two presidential aspirants this fall have had friendly talks about the upcoming election; it is possible that one may decide not to run. The ideological differences between the two have not inspired the fight of the past...