Word: shreveport
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...five Catholic Interracial Centers called Friendship Houses that existed five years ago (in New York, Chicago, Washington, Portland, Ore. and Shreveport, La.), only two remain within the national organization-in Chicago and New York. Despite such signs of setback, the mood of the delegates was hopeful. "After all," said the Rt. Rev. Monsignor Hugh Dolan of St. Benedict's Church in Greensboro, N.C., whose parish is one of the few in the South with integrated parochial schools, "the Gospel principle of love is here to stay, and the segregationists can't do anything about it." The conference...
Idol. Certainly, Van never felt entirely at home in the small, dusty East Texas town nestled in a forest of oil derricks where he grew up. He was born Harvey Lavan Cliburn Jr., in Shreveport, La., an only child, in the eleventh year of his parents' marriage. His father is a minor oil-company executive with a modest income, his mother a talented piano teacher who studied in New York with Liszt's longtime pupil, Arthur Friedheim. She was on the verge of making her debut under her maiden name, Rildia Bee O'Bryan, when her mother...
...started studying with his mother when he was three. Long before he could read words, he learned to read notes. At four, he appeared in his first public recital at Shreveport's Dodd College, playing Bach's Prelude in C Major. When he was six, the family moved to Kilgore, Texas (pop. 10,500). His father, who had hoped Van might be a medical missionary, decided he was headed for a musical career after all, had a studio built for him on the back of the garage, equipped it with a piano. The boy practiced for an hour...
...Shreveport...
Lost Pounds. Still, with six of his rivals yet to play, Cliburn's victory was hardly assured; indeed, on his U.S. record, he could not have been expected to whip up such frenzy. Born in Shreveport, La., the son of an oil executive, Cliburn grew up in Kilgore, Texas, studied the piano with his mother, a onetime concert pianist named Rilda Bee. He had no other training until he enrolled at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music in 1951 to study with Russian-born Teacher Rosina Lhevinne. He won the Leventritt Award for young pianists...