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Jascha Heifetz has long been widely regarded as the greatest Auer pupil. He has long been closely trailed, in the opinion of most critics, by dark, solemn, boyish-looking Nathan Milstein, 38. So self-effacing and publicity-shy is Nathan Milstein that, despite 13 years of U.S. touring, few people except violin enthusiasts know who he is. Last week, after a crowded recital in Carnegie Hall, critics as usual gave him the highest salutes...
Investigation into renewed "muggings" on Manhattan's streets disclosed that Drama Critic George Jean Nathan had been assaulted at 2 a.m. on Fifth Avenue. Two strangers jumped him from behind, knocked him down, tried to throw him through a plate glass window, went off without robbing him. He got a sore rib, a thoroughly shredded overcoat...
Strategy. Most adult game buffs prefer the games in which they conceive a strategic plan and then execute it tactically. Of U.S. games of this type, Strategy, designed by Nathan Reinherz, the Irving Berlin of American game designers, and made by Corey Game Co. of Boston, is probably the most satisfactory fun. On an extravagantly colored board two players maneuver four "cannon" and 16 "soldiers," each trying to control and cross five bridges into his opponent's territory, and besiege the enemy capital. The particular pleasure of Strategy comes from the execution of feints by task forces, which draw...
...late George Gershwin was represented by his self-portrait posed before his easel in top hat, white tie and tails. Nathan Milstein, top-rank violinist, revealed himself as a minor master in watercolor. Rumbologist Xavier Cugat sketched himself standing before invisible bongo drums...
...staff included Tipton Blish, Yale graduate (1927) and onetime man about Manhattan, Nathan Kaplan from the Bloomington (Ind.) Evening World, Photographer Edward Andros, who used to run a portrait studio in Mishawaka, Ind., and Private Grover Page Jr., son of the Louisville Courier-Journal's famed cartoonist. Public Relations Lieut. Peyton Hoge conceived the paper's slant and the division commander, Major General H. L. C. Jones., tolerated...