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Romantic Gesture. One of the "alien spouses" turned out to be a husband-a displaced Hungarian photographer named Gabor Rona who had married an ex-SPAR named Blossom Bernstein. Then there was Elisabeth Albinus, a pretty German girl whose ex-sergeant boy friend walked out on her two hours after she arrived at Idlewild Airport. Lissome Elisabeth got her picture in the tabloids, received at least one offer of adoption, 50, proposals and a free English course from the Linguaphone Institute of America...
...rugged men of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra had just played seven concerts in eight days, but when Conductor Leonard Bernstein called for volunteers, 35 stepped forward. Crowded into two dusty buses, they crossed the Negeb desert to give the battle-scarred Old Testament town of Beersheba the first symphony concert of its history...
...Beersheba, the musicians played a program of Mozart, Beethoven and Gershwin to 1,000 soldiers who overflowed the benches, squatted in the sand, or sat on the flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
Recently, Bernstein took off by car on a lone trip to the shell-shattered village of Negba to give a piano recital for women and children who had just returned to the village. The recital had to be canceled because in the excitement no one had arranged for a piano...
This week, Lennie Bernstein finished his eighth week as guest conductor, and made ready to return to Manhattan in time to attend the New York Philharmonic-Symphony's benefit concert for the Israel orchestra on Dec. 7. He had enjoyed every minute of his second season of sashaying around Israel. Said he: "I really thought I was bringing Mozart to the desert. But I found it already there...