Word: falling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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When he won the Leventritt Award last fall, Pianist Malcolm Frager, 24, was hailed as one of the most promising keyboard talents to turn up in many a year. The son of a St. Louis stocking manufacturer, Frager started playing the piano at four, was giving recitals when he was six, has appeared with most front-rank U.S. orchestras. Last week, against a field of twelve finalists, Frager walked off with the $3,000 first prize in Belgium's Queen Elisabeth Concours, becoming the first instrumentalist to win the two toughest competitions in music...
Niebuhr, who in 1953 suffered a stroke that partially paralyzed his left arm. has no intention of quitting work after his retirement. He will be busy on a project for the Fund for the Republic this summer, will conduct a seminar at Union next fall, and work for Columbia University's Institute for War and Peace Studies. Looking back last week over his 32 years at Union. Niebuhr noted in an article in the Union Seminary Tower how much the theological climate had changed during that third of a century. Few men have had so strong a hand...
Moon Orbiters. Preparations for one of those systems are under full steam at the Space Technology Laboratory, which will have two tries next fall at putting a satellite in orbit around the moon. Boosted away from earth by an Atlas missile and two smaller upper-stage rockets, the moon satellite will weigh 350-400 Ibs. It will be spin-stabilized by ten small rockets and will get electric power for its instruments and controls from four paddle-wheels covered with 8,800 solar cells. All this has become standard U.S. practice. What is novel about the moon orbiter...
...bestseller charts, standing fifth last week, topped only by such formidably publicized competition as Elvis Is Back and The Sound of Music. In the eight weeks it has been on the market, the record has sold 132,000 copies.* Last week Newhart signed for a Midas-clutch of fall TV shows (including four Ed Sullivan appearances), and his nightclub fees have gone from $200 a week to $5,000 and more-a remarkably bullish development for an unknown comic who did his first nightclub act only three months ago and has so far made only one network TV appearance (with...
Poppity-Pop. A lean and toothless old man with a long nose that had been broken twice by fists and at least once by a horse's hoof. Cowboy Kelly hated the 20th century. He went to his last movie in 1929. He would fall dumb when confronted with a telephone, flatly refused to ride in airplanes, insisted that all substitutes for the horse were a danger to life and limb ("They will kill you off! They go like hell, poppity-pop and hellity-scoop"). Like Pieter Brueghel the Elder, whom he admired so much, he filled his canvases...