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...stayed out of headlines and was more willing to listen to others than to voice his own ideas. Now the news spread gradually that here was a man with a tough confidence in a free-operating economy and a determination to keep the U.S. strong in the world. Texan Anderson had one other advantage over George Humphrey: friendship with Texan Sam Rayburn, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Ruled Mr. Sam 15 years ago: "He's reliable...
...outside Carnegie-Hall early in the morning, and nearly an hour before the concert the hall began filling. Van himself arrived backstage five minutes after Conductor Kondrashin had launched the orchestra into Prokofiev's Classical Symphony. Before his cue came, he prayed. Then the 6-ft. 4-in. Texan strode onstage and proved to doubters that he was up to his billing: one of the most abundantly gifted piano talents of his time...
...billboard in front of Manhattan's Carnegie Hall is a picture of a blue-eyed, shock-haired Texan, partly obscured by a green-lettered streamer: SOLD OUT. Long before the concert was scheduled, Berlin-based Musicologist Paul Moor, a onetime professional pianist himself, went to Moscow to cover the Tchaikovsky International Competition for TIME, soon began to file glowing reports about 23-year-old Van Cliburn's performances, and his triumph as a winner of the first piano prize. At the request of Cliburn's parents, Moor became a kind of ex-officio manager...
...mops up his one-Texan conquest of the Soviet Union this week, the Russians have to look back a century for a comparable triumph. That was when Franz Liszt, history's most vaunted piano virtuoso (and the teacher of the man who taught Van's first teacher-his mother), made his debut in St. Petersburg. Wearing Pope Pius IX's Order of the Golden Spur over his white cravat, his immaculate dress coat clanking with his other medals, his "shapely white hands" encased in doeskin gloves, he appeared, tossing his shoulder-length blond hair, before an audience...
...Juilliard friends recall him as an easygoing, extraverted Texan of undeniable instinctive talents, but limited intellectual interests. Says a fellow pianist: "He never even talked music or seemed to think about it much when he was away from the piano." Now and again he even let his practicing slide; his mother periodically called him from Kilgore to urge him to practice, or called Manager Arthur Judd of Columbia Artists Management to tell him to get after Van. For a while he was informally engaged to a tall, lissome brunette from back home named Donna Sanders, who was studying voice...