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...youth Ivan Stepanovich Mazepa (1644-1709) was sent to Warsaw to pick up a courtly education as a page to King John Casimir V of Poland. Mazepa, the story goes, picked up the wife of a Polish nobleman. The lady's husband surprised the lovers and ended the courtly phase of Mazepa's education by tying him naked on the back of a wild horse and turning the horse out onto the steppes. Rescued by Ukrainian Cossacks, Mazepa soon rose to leadership among them. When Charles XII began his invasion of Russia, Mazepa, to the disgust of most...
...native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming off the press. Meanwhile, four new. books on Chopin's life and music (the best: Polish Poet Casimir Wierzynski's The Life and Death of Chopin-Simon & Schuster; $3.95) had appeared in U.S. bookstores...
Begge, John William, Crocker, William Tufts, Flagg, Washington Allston. Jr., Holden, William Hall, House, Theodore Grant, Mitchell, William Foster, Morgan, John Casimir, Jr., Watkins, Ernest Lyndon, Ferguson, Oliver Drayton (Manager...
Bachelors of Arts (Out of Course), as of the Class of 1946: Melvin Breath Casey, Casimir de Rham Jr., Paul Martin Goldhill, William John Dean Kennedy, Marshall McKibben Kincaid, Cloyd Laporte Jr., Robert Leventall, John Stanley McCormick Jr., Joseph Menuel Paniello, John Ivan Simon, John Eliot Thayer...
...turn the young girl into a half-hysterical bundle of nerves. She became morbidly religious, wore spiked necklaces to mortify her flesh, built altars in the woods. She lived in a dreamworld peopled with overwrought heroes and heroines. But when her grandmother died, 18-year-old Aurore promptly married Casimir Dudevant, whom acid Poet Heinrich Heine later described as having "the tepid vulgarity, the banal nullity, the porcelain stare of a Chinese pagoda...