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Welcome. The show on Pennsylvania Avenue began at 2 minutes to 5. The Secretary of State's glittering limousine (U.S. Government license 120) slid to a stop at the Blair House canopy. The Negro chauffeur got out, raced the Blair House doorman for the rear-door handle...
...Morristown, N.J., an enterprising theater manager touted Life With Father by persuading his doorman to dress up in an 1880s costume...
...starting lineup: Covicki, g; Greenidge, rf; Doorman, lf; Leonard, rh; Harvey, ch; Engstrom, lf; Goldstein, re; Drehmell, ri; Chakkaphak, cf; McCallum, li; Eliot...
...Dorati has faced many a crisis and weathered them all. After he graduated from the Budapest Conservatory, where he worked under both Bartók and Kodály (TIME, July 19), he began to conduct in provincial German towns in his early 20s. Once, when he assured the doorman at Miinster's opera house that he was its new director, the doorman laughed in the boy's face, refused to let him in until a city official arrived to identify him. His next big job-and the one that eventually brought him to Dallas-was conducting...
...doorman was right. Manhattan concertgoers, to whom child prodigies were no novelty, were wild about Ervin Laszlo. His flashing performance of Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Debussy might have made any of his elders envious. Second-chair critics, who attend dozens of recitals a year and stoically put up with a lot of willing but perfunctory performers, found themselves using first-chair words of praise. "One searches his memory in vain," wrote the New York Times's Noel Straus, "for another so richly endowed with all of the factors that make for extraordinary and completely satisfying piano playing...