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That the orchestra has been so successful despite these drawbacks is due chiefly to Zvi Haftel, 54, concertmaster and chief wheedler-needier. Haftel was among the original 72 musicians, including 20 concertmasters and first-desk players, recruited in 1935 from the best European ensembles by Violinist Bronislaw Huberman, founder of the orchestra. Toscanini, as a snub to Hitler, conducted the debut performance of the refugee orchestra in 1936. But the orchestra foundered under Huberman until 1946, when Haftel, leading a musicians' mutiny, took over...
Johnson, the master wheedler, has a Congress that will need little coaxing to do his bidding. He can get the rest of the Kennedy program passed; he can begin to shape his own "Great Society...
PEDDLING OF INFLUENCE by Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, 60, onetime New Dealer turned wheedler for Tennessee Gas Transmission Co., was not out of line, ruled congressional committee, after investigating Corcoran's private pleas to FPC commissioners to grant a Tennessee subsidiary a higher return in a rate case (TIME, May 23). Committee's Republican minority dissented, called the findings "the most shocking political whitewash in years...
Influence peddling in Washington is an art both subtle and circuitous. So the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight learned last week as it dug for details of private talks between members of the Federal Power Commission and Thomas G. ("Tommy the Cork") Corcoran, onetime New Dealer-Wheeler turned wheedler for the Tennessee Gas Transmission Co. (TIME, April 4). What started with curiosity about Corcoran turned into a full-scale investigation of off-the-record contacts between FPC commissioners and utility company representatives. The results made for headlines but were instructive nonetheless...
...Untranslatable: "the siren," "the wheedler into benumbed complaisance." So called because of the lulling, persuasive power of his deep cello voice...
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