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...Paris Conservatory, listened thoughtfully. A 14-year-old student was playing a set of piano variations. The recital over, Director Fauré awarded the Conservatory's first piano prize to the fair-haired boy, saying in a voice so soft it could hardly be heard: "This youngster . . . has true musicality . . . he will go far." That...
...youngster grew up in a rugged, outdoor life, its setting the lovely, wooded country of rolling hills known in Kentucky as the "Pennyr'y'l." "I went barefooted," Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr. has written, ''hunted, trapped, fished, swam, canoed, raised chickens, fought roosters, rode five miles daily for the mail, trained dogs, did odd farm jobs, learned not to eat green persimmons and occasionally walked eight miles to Munfordville to broaden my horizon by seeing the train come in, learning the fine points of horse trading or listening to learned legal and political discussion on County...
Last week New York Timesman Meyer Berger told the story: "The amputation cases lay silent . . . in the red glow of the battle light in the ward. Shipboard sounds seemed remote and subdued as the chaplain bent over the fever-flushed youngster. The chaplain said: 'Do you want to pray with...
Flight to Panay. The son of a farmer-schoolteacher in Iloilo, Confesor came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through three years at the University of California. Later he graduated from the University of Chicago, where he majored in municipal government and economics. He was in Manila, as chief of the National Cooperatives Association and also gover nor of Iloilo, when the Japs arrived, got away to Panay in a small sailboat. When he struck out for the hills, he took with him his wife and three children...
Born in Turkey of Greek parents, Dr. Kyrides came to the U.S. as a youngster, worked his way through the University of Michigan, has devoted himself to two great passions. The other one is ballroom dancing, at which he proved so ardent and proficient a student that he was invited to become a professional. A shyly affectionate man, he often turns up in the laboratory with chocolate bars for his assistants. Sometimes, walking in the street with a friend, he darts into a store, emerges with a bag of peanuts and silently hands it to his companion...