Word: fishberg
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Died. Jack Fishberg, 66, violinist for 44 years with the New York Philharmonic and its predecessors; in London. Part of a remarkable family that at one time counted six members in the Philharmonic, Fishberg played for all the great conductors, and rated Toscanini the greatest of them all-though the orchestra did have to pull even him out of the soup. "He once got mixed up in Daphnis and Chloe," said Fishberg. "We kept on playing. We knew the score...