Music: Peregrinating Pole

Four months from now he expects to be in Buenos Aires, next month he expects to visit Albuquerque, next week he goes to Indianapolis, this week he was giving a concert in Carnegie Hall and celebrating his 57th birthday in Manhattan. Despite wartime transportation, Polish-born Artur Rubinstein, who in 40 years has traveled well over 1,000,000 miles, still trots the globe almost as fast and far as ever.

At the moment the pianist is trying desperately to write his autobiography on a commission from Publisher Alfred Knopf. But, mourns he, "I cannot write it. My life is too naughty. I am too...

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