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...surprise excitement of last week's Tchaikovsky Competition (see above) was supplied by the slight, dark-haired girl who finished second-Philadelphia's Susan Starr. At 20 one of the youngest of the competitors, Pianist Starr ripped into the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto with such dazzling virtuosity that the audience erupted in applause at the end of the first movement, and the orchestra and conductor joined in at the close...
...three years after the young musician won a scholarship to the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Philadelphia Orchestra dismissed all of its German players, among them a 'cellist. Leopold Stokowski happened to hear Eisenberg play, and engaged him. He was just fifteen, easily the youngest person ever to play in an American orchestra. "I had to lie about my age to get a union card," muses Eisenberg. "I said I was seventeen...
Duncan is one of the youngest women ever to head the venerable organization, and it is her avowed purpose to bring up to date the D.A.R.'s antiquated public image. The mother of three sons, she lives in Alexandria, manages the insurance department of her husband's real estate office. She is acting president of the Order of the First Families of Virginia, a member of the Colonial Dames of America, the Daughters of the Barons of Runnemede, Colonial Daughters of the Seventeenth Century. Daughters of Colonial Wars. Order of the Crown and the Lords of the Maryland...
Unhonored and unmourned. Vasily Stalin, younger son of the dead dictator* and once the youngest general in the Red air force, last week was reported to have died in remote Saratov, 460 miles southeast of Moscow. He was 41 or 42. twice married and the father of two children. His death, variously said to have been caused by suicide or "excessive drinking." was scarcely noted inside Russia since Soviet newspapers did not report it. But even if they had, few Russians would have been inclined to send flowers...
Born. To Takako Shimazu (formerly Princess Suga of Japan), 23, Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, and Hisanaga Shimazu, 28, her bank-clerk husband: their first child, a boy. Rank: commoner...