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After a two-month tour of the U.S., Thibaud will return to Paris and his U.S. protégé, 23-year-old Arnold Eidus of The Bronx. Eidus won the Thibaud International Competition for violinists last month. Says Thibaud proudly: "There were in this competition five Frenchmen, six Hungarians, three Hollanders-and one American. The American win. Such chic, such champagne in the tone. And technique! He never miss a note. It made me nervous. . . . You Americans, you don't know what talents you have...
...Poetica. In The Bronx, Alan Siegel, summoned for smoking in a subway, defended himself in eight stanzas of wretched doggerel, got punishment to fit both crimes. The magistrate's decision: "Your poem is fine, it's quite a line. Next time heed 'No Smoking' sign. The verdict is $2 fine...
...trademark laws of the U.S. being what they are, we have to refuse permission for reproductions of TIME'S format and take action against unauthorized uses of it. During last fall's election campaign, for example, an enterprising candidate for New York State assemblyman from The Bronx headlined his campaign literature with a brochure of himself on TIME'S cover, which led some voters to think that he had our endorsement. Obviously something had to be done...
...blocks north of U.N. and one block from the constant rumble of First Avenue trucks is Manhattan's swank, placid Beekman Place, rimming a bluff over the East River, with a view from Brooklyn to The Bronx. John D. Rockefeller III has an apartment at No. 1. A block away lives Columnist-Entrepreneur Billy Rose, with his wife, Eleanor Holm, Actress Katherine Cornell lives...
Burglar Alarm. In The Bronx, thieves hijacked Otto Meucci's truck in the night, drove it only a few minutes, quickly abandoned it when its horn short-circuited, arousing the neighborhood with its deafening blast...