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Special Resources. If the Guarneri is indeed Budapest's heir, it could not have been more properly anointed. It was founded at Vermont's Marlboro Music Festival at the suggestion of the Budapest's own second violinist, Alexander Schneider; its name was supplied by Budapest Violist Boris Kroyt, who had once played with a now defunct European quartet called the Guarneri (after the 18th century Italian violinmaker). Despite its distinguished sponsorship, the quartet's success is the result of its own special musical resources. First Violinist Arnold Steinhardt, 32, a tall (6 ft. 3 in.), darkly...
...tour members reminisced, Tun Razak was attending another party, this one in honor of his 47th birthday. There, the most impressive of the gifts Tun received was an announcement by the Tunku reiterating his determination not to stand for office after the next election - which leaves Tun Razak heir to the premiership. Next day Tun Razak got another gift: a biography of Winston Churchill. The life story of the great British statesman was given to the Malaysian statesman by Time...
Died. Fairleigh Dickinson III, 19, Columbia University freshman and an heir to the family's surgical-equipment fortunes, which enabled the Dickinsons to found and build New Jersey's Fairleigh Dickinson University; of a reported overdose of an opium derivative and LSD; in a friend's dormitory room on the school's Manhattan campus...
...Mystery to Himself. "I had never met Lewis," Catton recalls, "and I realized that our styles were different. But we had much the same attitude toward the war and toward Grant." As it turned out, this was one of those rare literary legacies in which, considering the subject, the heir is apparently superior to the original author. Just as Lewis was ideal as Sherman's biographer, so Catton's quiet lucidity and laconic humor are precisely what is needed to amplify and examine Grant's elusive but enduring qualities...
...first player, Terrell should gain both experience and confidence from the greater challenges. He is already acknowledged as the heir to Nayar's collegiate title, and his real test will be the National Amateur Championship...