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   European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 16 the stars and stripes pianist Horowitz will make records again new York up pianist Vladimir Horowitz absent from the concert stage for nine years. Will play again for his millions of fans the Russi in born pianist who made his american concert debut at Carnegie Hall in 1928. Has Fig red a Long term recording con Trad with Columbia records. Horwit will begin a series of re \ Cital albums within a few weeks which will include the works of the great masters of the piano. The pianist was born in Kiev the youngest of three children of an electrical Engineer. He began his career with formal lessons fro ii his ref her and enrolled in the Kiev conservatory when he was 12. During what some have railed his sabbatical in the last nine years Horowitz prepared new material for concerts and recordings. In announcing the agreement. Columbia records president god Dard Lieberson said there Are pianists and there Are master pianists and there is Horowitz a phenomenon who stands unique by United press International today is saturday March 24, the 83rd Day of the year with 282 to follow in 1962. On this Day in history in 1603, the crowns of England and Scotland were joined under James i of Scotland. In 1882, prof. Robert Koch announced in Berlin his discovery of tuberculosis germs. In 1934. The United states granted the philippine islands Independence effective july 4, 1946. Out our Way by Williams Bow fifty years too soom seeing double Bob Hope appears to be having trouble be Lieving his eyes a a Peers from the cockpit of � fighter plane at the open door of a transport filled with fellow performers and himself. With Hope in the Hatch Are from left Francis Langford. Joan Randall Skinny Ennis and Jayne Mansfield. Jerry Colonna kneels in the Center As Patti Thomas looks Over Hla shoulder. Hope la now on his second million Miles of sometimes anxious air travel. On 2nd million Miles Hope s bad minutes come in not on air Hollywood up Bob Hope does t really like to live dangerously but he s had More close shaves Thim a no Tipper in a Barber College. Hope specializes in Riding in air planes. His latest adventure involved a Bolt of lightning that struck the nose of a plane he was Riding in. I had a script in my hand and pretended i was studying my lines so the other passengers would think 1 was Calm. But i kept read ing the same Page Over and Over again incl i still Don t know what 1 read the comic said. During world War u Bob spent As much time in air planes As Many pilots. Landing in thick fogs hop Ping on and off of postage stamp air Fields and skimming Over mountains. In 1344, near new Caledonia in the South Pacific he was aboard a Navy Catalina when one of its two engines conked out. The Pilot told us to throw every thing overboard Bob recalled. We jettisoned Luggage oxygen Cigar ettes and three sacks of liquor. We had to lie Flat on the floor when the plane hit the water. We bounced three times before smack ing into a Sand  a year earlier in England. Bob was a passenger i a c47 that Over shot Hendon Field and missed plunging into a hangar by inches. Hope s charmed life was evidence in vaudeville when his partner Lloyd Durbin ate a slice of Cocoa nut pie Bob had turned Down. Durbin died of food poisoning. When Bob launched his movie career in the big broadcast of 1938" he waa saved from death when casting director red lesser pulled him from under a falling scaffold on the lot Bob s most chilling experience waa his 1958 attempt to become an unwilling paratrooper he was sitting in the co Pilot s seat of a b47 Jet bomber 18,000 feet Over the Pacific Ocean when he was seized by a fit of Claustro phobia. I asked the Pilot if i could raise my seat so i could see out the windows Hope said. He told its tour of army  
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