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Behr woke up to the backwardness of Albania early in his stay. Setting out to replace a razor (he had lost his suitcase in Budapest), he discovered that the only kind available was locally made−and lethal. It worked only by taking off large slices of skin. Behr mentioned this casually to his Albanian guide, who replied simply: "There is always some trouble about our razor." The shopping trip had one advantage: Behr got one of his few chances to talk alone with a native Albanian, a pharmacist who had been to Paris years ago. and who plaintively asked...
...maker of violas and occasional cellos and violins (she makes violins "only when there isn't enough wood left to make a viola"). When the Boston Symphony's Eugene Lehner wants a viola, he goes straight to Montclair (where Mrs. Hutchins sells them for $600 apiece); the Budapest String Quartet's Mischa Schneider has used one of her cellos. Says one satisfied Hutchins customer, David Mankovitz, who played with the Kroll Quartet: "Her viola creates a sensation wherever I play it. People want to know how to get that tone quality. At the Spoleto Festival, they wouldn...
...Metropole and National hotel dining rooms, and at the Budapest, one of the top Moscow restaurants, dance orchestras thump out the latest hits almost as fast as they come over the Voice of America's unjammed "Music U.S.A." broadcasts, which thousands of Russians record on tape. There are status-conscious college kids who try to impress compatriots by pretending they are tourists, usually Amerivantsy. Some even label themselves "local foreigners," call other baron (good guys) in their set by secret American names hybridized from Hollywood, e.g., Audrey Monroe, Charlee Taylor. A good many more-sober young Russian intellectuals scorn...
...syndication to TV stations all over the country, which will have to find their own sponsors. Each program runs an hour-or sometimes a bit more if the material requires the extra time-and only one commercial interrupts it. This week Concert Pianist Rudolf Serkin appears with the Budapest String Quartet in an hour of Beethoven and Schumann. The cameras come down close on Serkin's surprisingly pudgy fingers and recede into high overhead shots, but for the most part they keep still and leave the music uncorrupted by jazzy TV techniques...
Gross's youth was none too lighthearted: a series of nights during World War I from his native Austria to Budapest and finally to the U.S. in 1921, when he was 17. At one time he was a bus boy in Atlantic City; at another, he and his close friend, Painter Raphael Soyer, enrolled in a class to learn machine embroidery. When Gross got married, friends had to help out. "Someone bought me a ring; someone else provided the wedding supper, and a third bought the marriage license." All the while he studied art, but before 1935, the year...