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...judges agreed with the audience and awarded the $3,000 first prize to the tearful Moscow Conservatory student, while Belgium's Queen Elisabeth herself, an 87-year-old wisp of a woman regally draped in white, excitedly waved her approval from the royal box. Just 18, Moguilevsky, whose parents teach piano at the conservatory at Odessa, displayed a dazzling technique deftly tempered with a controlled maturity of approach. He is the youngest pianist to ever win the coveted Queen's crown. "Moguilevsky has everything," raved La Dernière Heure critic Pierre Modaert, "a blessed musical nature . . . great...
Died. General Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck/93, Germany's East African commander in World War I, a will-o'-the-wisp tactician whose tiny guerrilla force (300 Germans, 11,000 natives) haunted, taunted, eluded and periodically decimated a combined Anglo-Belgian-Portuguese force of 300,000 for four years, all the while scrupulously obeying Junkerdom's rules of war (he freed prisoners who promised not to fight again, refused to fire on enemy officers at close range), finally laid down his arms 14 leisurely days after the 1918 armistice, the only undefeated German general in that...
...Cover) With the exaggerated gestures of a man who feels the eyes of scrutiny, the short, fox-faced witness removed his serious blue fedora, took off the velvet-collared overcoat with the laven der silk lining, and with well-manicured hands smoothed back a wisp of brown hair. His bright eyes stole briefly across the gathered crowd and looked away again. Then, clutching a black attache case imprinted with his silver initials, Robert Gene Baker, 36, the whizbang from Pickens, S.C., hurried into a hearing room in the old Senate Office Building...
...Even so, the friendly "Hey there, nice to see you" spirit of such Texans as Lucy Ross, 18, won the loudest applause. And the Texas gals drew well-modulated oohs with ever-deeper, doom-defying curtsies that started when Bonnie Bowman, 19, gracefully dipped her forehead to within a wisp of touchdown...
...shadowed outlines of the Appalachians, then leaned back against a white pillow. In the dimmed cabin light, his dark, impassive face seemed enlivened only by his big, shiny, compelling eyes. Suddenly, the plane shuddered in a pocket of severe turbulence. The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. turned a wisp of a smile to his companion and said: "I guess that's Birmingham down below...