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...Russia-a prizewinner at the 1958 competition won by Van Cliburn, followed by two generously acclaimed tours in 1959 and 1961. In his second album (recorded in Moscow), Los Angeles-born Pianist Pollack dips into Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, shows a ringing tone, a fleet touch, and a natural temper for the romantics. At 27, one of the most gifted-and least appreciated-talents around...
Unlike today's diminished royalty, the dynasty still retains vast power, but reticence and bourgeois practicality temper the imperial wealth. The Rothschilds are rarely glimpsed these days, and outsiders are left to speculate that the legend may at last have become larger than life...
Szell came to the Cleveland Orchestra in 1946, renowned as a greatly gifted Wagnerian conductor at the Metropolitan Opera and as a man with a monumental temper (his Met career ended when he walked out in midseason after a dispute with General Manager Rudolf Bing). As a hedge against the possibility of stirring up any such disputes in the Cleveland, Szell demanded and received assurance that the board would give him "the means of making this orchestra second to none." The board provided the means, and Budapest-born George Szell, a World War II immigrant to the U.S., created...
Early last September, the President wrote twelve steel company chiefs, urging them to battle inflation by holding the price line, pledged that if they did so, he would urge Steelworkers to temper their wage demands. Since then, he has wooed U.S. Steel Chairman Roger Blough in private chats. Fortnight ago, Kennedy and Labor Secretary Arthur Goldberg huddled secretly for two hours one evening in the White House with McDonald and Blough. Kennedy wants 1) a quick settlement to head off any first-half splurge and second-half slump in inventory buying, 2) no increase in prices, and 3) only such...
Although the game was not a free-for all (the Crimson's beautiful play-making prevented that), Boston College did infuse a little hot temper into the play occasionally and accordingly drew seven penalties. The Crimson got six penalties itself, but two of three of these were committed more-or-less in self-defense...