A great ocean liner stood at her Manhattan pier one night last week waiting for a passenger who had already delayed the sailing time two hours. The passenger was an old man who had refused to complicate his busy life by hurrying. Leisurely he changed his clothes while the ship waited, leisurely chatted with a little girl of ten. Then through cheering crowds he pushed his way to a limousine, permitted himself to be whisked, while a guard of motorcycle policemen waved traffic aside, to the waiting S.S. Paris.
Pianist Ignace Jan Paderewski is...
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