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...Locked Doors. In the beginning, the inspiration for Yale's contemporary architectural renascence was Griswold, but since his death last year much of the talk at Yale centers around the bouncy, crew-cut figure in baggy tweeds, Paul Rudolph, Yale's 45-year-old architectural Wunderkind. Harvard-trained Rudolph is regarded by many as the fastest comer on the U.S. architectural scene. His Wellesley Jewett Arts Center was acclaimed as a dazzling display of design pyrotechnics. For the city of New Haven, which like Yale is astir with architectural activity, he has put up a parking garage that...
...Saari. No. 1 Wunderkind of the three-day contest was 17-year-old Don Schollander, chunky (5 ft. 10 in., 160 Ibs.) star of the Santa Clara, Calif., Swim Club. At 16, Schollander set American freestyle records at 200, 400 and 500 yards. Fighting off old age, he twice broke through the two-minute barrier in the 200-meter freestyle before traveling to Japan. Last week, under the mesmerized eyes of TV cameras, newsreel photographers and 7,500 sophisticated Japanese swimming fans, he coolly did it again, "hydroplaning" (as one dazzled Tokyo sportswriter put it) up and down Jingu Pool...
There was even some speculation that now, at 74, Rubinstein may be growing a bit nostalgic for the old Germany that treated him so well during seven happy years as a Wunderkind. Perhaps he had played the recital to test the wind for his return to die Heimat...
...rally atmosphere, no one is more devoutly convinced of Cleveland's orchestral supremacy than Szell himself, to whom all the excitement is a glowing reflection of his own musical genius. At 65, Szell (pronounced sell) has spent 50 years on the podium, a life cycle that began as Wunderkind in Richard Strauss's Germany, then progressed to enfant terrible in Szell's Cleveland. He arrived in Cleveland in 1946, pruned and rebuilt the orchestra, educated its audience, charmed its angels, and terrified everyone, until he reached a point of supreme control and superb accomplishment. Now, after...
...vivid contrast to Welles the Wunderkind, the Telepix offers up Eisenstein, the past master; and by this stage in his career, Eisenstein's mastery had definitely passed. In Part I, lumbering and contrived as it is, at least one can take pleasure from the intricate visual patterns that Eisenstein creates; in Part II, all that remains is a bevy of intolerably melodramatic actors wearing ludicrous hills of fur, droning like a Russian language record played at too slow a speed, and walking with all the grace of Kate Smith in a cha cha contest. In addition to this, Eisenstein switches...