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of the century, Sergei Rachmanin
off and Alfred Cortot. She made
her debut in Athena in 1936 under
her countryman Dimitri Mitro-
poulos, and her Paris debut a year
later under Pierre Monteux.
Everything seemed to point to an
eminent career.
But, as in the case of so many
others, World War II wrecked
Mme. Bachauer’s plans. The out
break of hostilities found her
stranded in Cairo. She remained in
the Middle East for nearly six
years, cut off from the major
musical centers of the world, play
ing concerts for Allied armed
forces in the area. Most of her im
mediately family was killed during
the German occupation of Greece,
and their property and possessions
lost. The young pianist married, but
her husband died a few years later.
It was an unhappy, disastrous time.
In 1946, Mme. Bachauer, a
\vi4pw at thirty-three, attempted
to begin her career anew in Lon
don. Completely unknown, she
found it difficult to secure a hear
ing from agents or managers.
Finally, she was recommended to
the well-known conductor Alec
Sherman, who engaged her for a
concert at Albert Hall. It was only
at the rehearsal, when Mme. Bach
auer played the Greig Concerto,
that Mr. Sherman and the orches
tra fully realized her qualities as a
pianist. The effect on the audience
was exactly the same: it gave her
a standing ovation. A few years
later, incidentally, Mme. Bach
auer became Mrs. Alec Sherman.
Despite her European success,
Mme. Bachauer was unknown to
the American public when she ar
rived In New York for a Town Hall
concert on October 29, 1950. She
had written ahead to her country
man, Dimitri Mitropouloe to Invite
him to attend; in accepting, he told
her that everything depended on
her critical receptions "If you get
great notices you won't need me;
if you don’t, I can't help you.”
There were only about thirty
people in the hall when Mme.
Bachauer launched into the Bach-
Busoni Toccata, Aria and Fugue in
C, her opening number. But the
New York critics were among
them, and the next morning they
wrote of her "amazing technique,"
"miracles of virtuosity" and
"liquid, authoritative playing,” and
in general made it clear that there
was a major new star in the
pianistic world.
Since then, Gina Bachauer has
been not only one of the world’s
most brilliant pianists, but one of
the busiest. With her husband, who
gave up his own musical career to
Of Groundi and Sorgoant Blood
ROTC Cadet of the week for January 27, 1M2 was Cadet Private
Cecil Aubrey Jonaa, Jr. Jones Is a freshman student at Mercer from
Macon, Georgia. He it a member of A Company.
I put on my Levi’s, R.O.T.C.
shirt and tie, orange baskethell
socks, and tennis shoes. I then got
my Edsel and picked up my date,
Jethrina Beerstein, at the Frarii-
men Women’s Dorm for Home
coming Sestivlties. As we left, I
had my first encounter with Mias
Ground), the undisputed monarch
of the Obis' Dorm.
She stood on the porch in her
Army Boots with a billy-chib In
one hand and the leash of her Ger
man Shepard In the other. As we
left, she stopped us and repeated
the 2497 RW.OA. ruler by heart.
Then she added "Jethrina, you
have late permission *1111 9 o'clock
tonight. But remember, you’re
wrestling against the Masked Mar
vel tomorrow in Atlanta.”
We left and fifty minutes later
u*e got to the Coliseum only
through the aid of Jethrina, who
pushed my car from Tmtnall Square
to die Coliseum parking lot We
crammed Into the lobby with 40,000
other people for the “Tommy Tem
po and the Off-Beats” Concert
Jethrina had forgotten to use her
Ban, and we were soon at the
front of the crowd, through the
gate, and in our asata. For seme
strange reason, though, no one sat
Tba
while singing the first masher, ha
fell off the stags and hung him
self. As wa came up the walk after
the concert at one second past ulna
o’clock, Mku Ground), still shad
ing on the parch, aimed bat shot
gun st me as she said to bar dog,
Tiger, who was atnbMouriy at
tempting to eat a piaoa of cafeteria
roMt beef, "Kill, Tiger!”
Immediately TlgW charged
Jethrina, but getting to a position
where he could see hsr, ha tucked
tail and ran. A dosen Campus Cope
stormed out of the bushes, much
to the dismay of several IndlRiant
couples, and began hasting me with
rocks, spiked night sticks, braes
kunckles, and cafeteria rolls as
Sergeant Blood, the man In charge,
explained, wifi) his tooth Isas grin
stretching from ear to ear, that I
was being subdued with a mini
mum of force.
Mias Grouch thought that the
Cops were having so much fun that
she Joined in the fun by beating
me with her woodm leg. As my
punishment for notating arrest, I
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rest of the wsufc and; a place
Jethrina can’t even stand.
share hers, she has traveled around
the world several times, playing
with virtually every major symp
hony orchestra in existence. Her
principal home is in London, but
she maintains her ties to her home
land through a summer villa In the
town of Halandri near Athens, and
through her warm friendship with
the Greek royal family.
A friendly and outgoing woman,
a bom raconteur fluent in English,
Mme. Bachauer makes friends
wherever she goes, and is a parti
cular favorite of news reporters and
broadcasters, who know her as "a
good interview.”
Last season, which included more
than fifty appearances all over the
world, she gave a special aeries of
thirteen recitals In Israel in nine
teen days, donating the proceeds to
the Israel Emergency Fund.
In describing her virtuosity,
major critics have notably employ
ed a royal vocabulary, with one
particular adjective shared in com
mon; "Olympian."
Poor Hknry'g Almanac
Why Walk
Break Your
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Neck Instead
College Work-Study Program
To Be Financed With $66.5 Million
Nearly 257,000 students who
need financial help to attend col
lege will be assisted by the Feder
ally College Work-Study Program
during the first six months of 1969.
Secretary of Health, Education,
and Welfare Wilbur J. Cohen
announced today that approxima
tely $66 5 million will be made
available by the VS Office of Ed
ucation to 1,635 colleges and uni
versities in all 50 States, the Dis
trict of Columbia, Guam, Puerto
Rico and the Virgin Islands to meet
80 percent of student payrolls. A
student’s college or university, or
an approved off-campus agency,
will provide 20 percent
Students may work up to IS
hours a week while in school and
up to 40 hours a week during
summer or other vacation periods.
Employment may be in such on-
campus Jobs as teacher assistant,
library aide, laboratory assistant,
maintenance > ru Ira, or adminis-
aid. Off-campus employment
for public or private non
An y students unable to enter or
to continue in college for lack of
funds may apply for a Job under
the College Work-Study Program to
the financial aid officer of a part
icipating college.
“The College Work-Study Pro
gram la one of four major Fede
rally supported programs to help
American youth attend college,”
Secretary Cohen said. "Singly or
in combination these four programs
are moving us closer to our rat
ional goal that every capable stu
dent shall have the opportunity for
a college education ragardleas of
his finances.”
The other programs are the
National Defense Student Loan
Program, authorised by the Nat
ional Defense Mutation Act of
19M, and the
By Henry Wadsworth Shorikid
We approach Paul Kodac (Mer
cer’s Big Mouth On Campus) as he
snores busily in his room. Ordinar
ily he goes to bed by 3:00 A.M. but
now he sits half-aware, at his
desk, obviously deep in thought.
Shortkid: Cheerful greetings to
you!
Kodac: Ugh
Shortkid: I must say you cer
tainly are up early this morning.
Kodac: Aw. Go pick on some
body else. Me no wanna talk.
Shortkid: I suppose I have Just
about exhausted your supply of
information.
Kodac: What? C’mon, out. Out.
Leave already.
Shortkid: Just one question first.
Surely you’ll grant that.
Kodac: Here I go again!
Shortkid: Good. Now then, what
pray tell is that large bandage on
your right knee?
Kodac: Really want to know? .
Shortkid: llnlaaa ifs too personal,
of course.
Kodac: Right Well, I was runn
ing full speed to the Cafeteria to
beat the humongroua lines and I
forgot that I was bstweau the Girl’s
gym and the post office.
Shortkid: What is the algnifl
cane* of that particular position?
Kodac: You don’t know?
my right knee yesterday on that
wire
Who strings tbeae
Shortkid:
wires?
Kodac: The same goof who
strings those chains that read) up
and grap people, toss them down
and badly injure them.
Shortkid: Conceivably, though,
if you fell on the ground. . .
Kodac: What ground? This goof
positions his traps where you can’t
fall anywhere but on bard side
walks and like cemented surfaces.
Shortkid: Sound rather sinister
to me . .
Kodac:
tool
Yeah. Wicked and evil.
Shortkid: But why does this
“good” (as you call him) position
these chains and invisible wires so
as to deliberately inflict injury
upon our poor frail students?
Kodac: Well he knows that stu
dents don’t walk on sidewalks;
they all use the paths and
lawns . . k
Shortkid: Why do they use the
paths and lawns? ’
Kodac; Same reeaon everybody
runs up that hill Instead of walking
fifty feet out of their way to uae
the stepe. And you’ll notice that
there la deliberately no direct roots
to the Freshman Woman's
from the Freshman Man's «to—».
Shortkid: But why?
soul is late for hia date'and runs
down the path . . .
Shortkid: He gets de-pataOad by
the invisible wtra.
Kodec: Not always- Some only
lose an apendage. The short guys
stand to lose their heads.
Shortkid: I aea. But why don’t
you use the sidewalks and pre
scribed walkways?
Kodac: We do sometimes.
Shortkid: When particularly?
Kodac: On rainy days.
Shortkid: Ah Yea. But still I
can’t understand the sedefection
that the “goof” gets from all this.
Kodac: Well what satisfaction
do all the profs get from piling
double and triple assignments an
Tuesdays?
Shortkid: You maan harauas of
Wonderful Wednesday?
Kodac: Right
Shortkid: Well, I suppose it is
an unconscious reaction to the time
spent out of class.
Konac: You mean they envy our
extra rack time?
Shostkid: Not exactly. Rather
they want their “influence”, eo to
speak, to stay over their studrat
during hia day of tree activity and
constructive. . .
Kodac: Yeah. yeah.
Shortld
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