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...name of one composer was on everybody's lips last week in Berlin. So were words like Wunderkind. After all, hadn't he matured faster than Mozart? It was said that his talents as pianist and conductor were beyond those of any of his contemporaries. On top of all that, he was evidently a likable, unpretentious man of the world, gifted in languages, poetry and science, a fit partner for any woman on the dance floor, and any man's match in the billiard room. Who was the man? Why, Jacob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy...
...heroines in its television soap operas, the Columbia Broadcasting System is strongly attracted to interesting strangers. Last week, for the second time in a year, CBS reached far outside its own management ranks to select a new president. He is Arthur R. Taylor, a 37-year-old corporate Wunderkind with no broadcasting experience, who for the past two years has served as vice president and chief financial officer of International Paper Co. Taylor succeeds Charles T. Ireland Jr., who died unexpectedly last month at age 51 after less than a year on the job. Ireland, himself a surprise choice...
Vienna-born Bluhdorn, now 45 and a bit thinner and grayer than when he was the wunderkind of conglomerates several years ago, expects that The Godfather will lift G. & W. earnings close to their alltime record set in 1968. The company is likely to report sales of around $1.6 billion and net operating profits of slightly under $68 million, up $ 13 million from last year...
...because he knew-Spector knew!-it was going to crash. And it has been a year and a half since the publication-on the same day!!!-of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pump House Gang, and that's a lot of low profile for the wunderkind of the New Journalism...
...luck that his chaste romance turned out to be just what Middle America was yearning for. Love Story now tops the bestseller list and Segal is deluged by offers for movies, plays and more books. But he bridles at any suggestion that he is some kind of Wunderkind. "I worked and learned from flop to flop. Everything I've got has been a hassle...