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The other is Van Cliburn of Shreveport, and Kilgore, who at 23 set Moscow on its ear this week by winning the Tchaikovsky International Piano com petition. This extroverted Irish- Texan (both his mother and father are of Irish descent) gave his first public concert in Shreveport at the age of three. When he was six, he and his mother, a concert pianist, were giving recitals together. On his first day in school in Shreveport, the teacher asked him if he could read. "Yes," he said, "I can read music." When he came here in 1954 to compete for the coveted Edgar N.

Leventritt award, they laughed when he sat down to play (honest, that's what I'm told by those who were there). He looked like a misplaced basketball player. He's six-feet-four but has a mop of curly hair that springs up so that he looks about six-feet-seven. His hand spans IVA inches. He walks with a gangling lope.

His piano style is as Russian as his dialect is east Texan. When he finished playing, he had won the award. Mrs. Leventritt decided to give a reception for him after his first New York Philharmonic appearance. She told him to bring along any friends from home who had come to hear him.

Came the reception, and Mrs. Leventritt had to fight her way into the room through a mob of strangers. "Honey," said Van, sweeping an arm toward 75 Tex-ans, "see these people? These here are a few of mah friends." Cliburn's Southern ways and Russian style got' him the nickname of "Uncle Vanya" at Columbia Artists management, which has managed him for the last four years. When he decided to go to Moscow, William H. Judd, vice president at Columbia, said: "They'll have to get an interpreter to interpret for Van's English interpreter." Cliburn (pronounced Clyburn) is, according to Judd, crazy about hominy grits, black-eyed peas, ham with red gravy, potlicker, collard and mustard greens, and fried steak.

There has been some specu- lation here about how Russian food has hit him. He was born in Shreveport, where his parents founded a mission that grew into a church. To keep him quiet when he was a tot, his mother used to give him a tri angle to bang on during the church music. In Kilgore, the family join ed the First Baptist Church, and Van sang in the choir. In New York, he joined the Calvary Bap tist Church, just down the street from Carnegie Hall.

He has written hymns and short pieces for the chuch, and com posed a choral setting for a psalm which was sung on the radio here. He's a friendly character who loves reople and practical jokes Quite a boy. to Discontinue Passenger Service, Baltimore to New York BALTIMORE (ffl The Balti more and Ohio Railroad, the na tion's oldest, is discontinuing us Baltimore to New York passenger service April 27. The six trains dailv in each di rection will make their last runs Saturday night, April 26. New Jersey gave its approval Wednesday and Maryland.

Delaware and Pennsylvania had consented ear lifir. The has been running the trains for 72 years. The railroad said the trains became too much of a financial burden because patronage dropped 46 per cent since 1946. Film Star Gary Cooper Has Facial Surgery NEW YORK (tfl Gary Cooper has had some facial blemishes re moved by plastic surgery. The operation was performed Wednesday at Manhattan Eye, Ear and Throat Hospital.

A hospital spokesman said the surgery was not the type popularly known as face-lifting, and that the veteran movie star's features are as rugged as ever. Cooner. who will.be 57 on May 7. has starred in 70 films and won Oscars for "Sergeant York" and "High Noon." Summit Valley 4-H Club Has Meeting Margy Horton presided over a meeting of the Summit Valley 4-H Club with Judy Thompson in the secretary's chair, Ed Bartoletti and Joan Britton led the flag pledges. Members voted against any changes in the official 4-H pledge.

Earl Britton spoke on livestock marketing and Patsy Frazier spoke on sheep. Mrs. Henry Horton, a leader of the club, briefly discussed several events on the club's future program. Patsy Bartoletti led group singing. Refreshments were served.

Others present included Henry Horton, Frances McDonough, Tim Downey, Judy Driscoll, Jim Dris-coll, Jeanine Rundell, Jim Kissock and Phil Stodden. Slightly Injured HOLLYWOOD UP) Actress Nanette Fabray, who is expecting a baby, was slightly injured Wednesday night in a traffic collision. Her car and another collided In Beverly Hills. The other driver suffered minor injuries. By DOC QUIGG NEW YORK (U.R) If we can stop yapping about juvenile delinquency long enough, it might be well to ponder the fact that a couple of our juveniles are international sensations.

One is Bobby Fischer of Brooklyn, who at 14 set the chess world on its ear by defeating grand masters to win the U. S. championship. Swordfish Known To Atiack Ships WILLIAM Yarcich, of Paterson, N. has a picture to prove swordfish almost sank his minesweeper while under Japanese fire at Balikpupan, Borneo, but some of his friends think it a fake.

It shows 18 inches of the sword sticking up through the five-inch thick wooden hull. The fish, however, was gone when they dry-docked for repairs. Well, Bill's friends might as well accept the evidence as true. Swordfish have been attacking ships and sinking them, too since Roman times at least. Aelian, a Roman writer of about aesar's day, tells how a whopper sent a galley to the bottom off North Africa.

And ever since then they have been such a hazard that for centuries marine insurance companies have insured against them. In most cases the reason why swordfish attack a ship is probably because they think it a whale or a giant squid with which they occasionally vary their regular diet of herring or other small fish. But sometimes they attack out of pure devilment or in retaliation against fishermen. A case in point is an attack against the British ship, Dread-naught," when three days out of Colombo In 1864. It is exceptional because it proves swordfish can sometimes save their sword.

One of the crew hooked a sword- fish. It broke water and the line, then it attacked from beneath. It drove its sword through the cop- per-sheated, three-inch hull, withdrew its weapon and took off. Next day, when the captain learned the hull was leaking, he put back for repairs. The insurance company refused the claim on the grounds that it wasn't a swordfish because no sword was left.

But the London Court of Common Pleas awarded 600 pounds damages because counsel proved the fish could sometimes wriggle lose with its weapon. As for the size of the mackerellike fish, it is not true they rarely top 400 pounds. Capt. Benjamin Ashby, who personally killed over 300 in the mid-1800's, killed one off Edkartown, that weighed 639 pounds when ready for salting. Its live weight was estimated at 800 pounds.

Its sword was six feet long. Swordfish are found mainly in tropic and temperate waters around the world, but they seem most prevalent in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. They frequently travel alone or in pairs, though sometimes a group launches a combined operation against a whale, using the point. In feeding on small fish, they circle a school to bunch it and then attack, using the edge of the blade. They are utterly fearless from birth.

A mackerel shark, caught near Gloucester, some years ago, had a three-inch sword embedded in its nose. It was still bleeding from the wound. The size of the angry tot, before the encounter, was estimated at 15 inches. Where they breed is a mystery. The only known breeding ground, so far as I can yet find, is in the Mediterranean, mainly around Sicily.

It seems incredible, though, that there would not be other breeding grounds. Apparently, however, the sword-fish of the Atlantic breed in Italian waters. The best fishing for them is off the east coast of the continent all they way from the Antilles to Nova Scotia. The best months are July and August, but they are to be found in the area from May to November. (Copyright, 1958, by Eugent Burnt) FREE: By special arrangement with the editors of the Encyclopedia Americana, my panel of judges will award each week to the reader who sends me the best true-life nature adventure, the best nature observation, or the best question on nature and wildlife, a complete 30-volume set of this world-famous' reference work in a handsome Sealcraft binding.

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