Van Cliburn

This is a nice article about the 50th anniversary of
Van Cliburn’s victory in the first Tchaikovsky International Piano Competition in Moscow in April 1958. "To Americans demoralized by the cold war, Mr. Cliburn’s triumph offered vindication. One of our boys, an apple-pie Texan, went to Moscow and beat the Commies fair and square at their own game, playing concertos by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff, no less." Bob Schieffer will have a segment about the anniversary and Cliburn's triumphant win on tomorrow's "Face the Nation".