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...lights in the recording studio were dimmed, and Vorsetzer, the 700-Ib. pianist, stood at the keyboard of the Steinway concert grand, all 88 fingers poised over the keys. Then the mechanical wizard began to play - first a spirited Josef Hofmann performance of Mendelssohn's Rondo Capriccioso, then further seances with Leschetizky, Paderewski, Busoni, Mahler, Saint-Saens, Debussy, Ravel. Guided by electric impulses from a collection of unique piano rolls, Vorsetzer's sensitive fingers produced all the notes with ghostly perfection, just as the turn-of-the-century masters had played them 50 years be fore. But this...
...unusually fine, interesting evening. There were some unfortunate shortcomings in the ambitious program, but in its entirety it was a testament both to the efforts of the students in the chorus and the skill of Miss Hiatt. Said one member of the Music Department, "that woman is a wizard...
...TIME cover article [July 19] on Conrad Hilton almost catches the multiple paradox of a financial wizard who thinks and acts like a poet. To many of us who have come to know and love Mr. Hilton, his "vanity" is the terrifying simplicity of the eternal boy who never loses the simple sense of wonder in the appreciation of small things. I met him as a generous benefactor; I have come to respect him as a truly great man whose optimistic faith and courage in the face of harsh realities turn such realities into success stories for protective top aides...
Disposable Parts. Research was also the passion of the company's founder, Andre Citroen, a high-living production and promotion wizard who revamped France's sluggish artillery-shell plants in World War I, later introduced Henry Ford's mass-production techniques to begin his auto firm. He advertised with songs and skywriting, once had the Eiffel Tower strung with 250,000 lights that spelled CITROEN. But he spent even more lavishly on development and the Deauville gaming tables, lost control of the company to the more staid and highly secretive Tiremaker Michelin in 1934, and died heartbroken...
Chambers, a financial wizard trained at the University of London's School of Economics and polished at the Inland Revenue Board, obstinately foug1' his way back to grace. The Courtauld venture had rewarding side effects: the worth of the Courtauld stock held by I.C.I. soared after the quarrel, from $173 million to $268 million. More important. Chambers made some hard decisions inside I.C.I. He cut its 99,000 employees by 5%, trimmed costs to the point of printing its annual report in newspapers rather than sending copies to almost 475,000 shareholders. The company also stepped...