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...group of 40 Americans to which Toga suddenly belonged was both ordinary and exemplary. All were men who ranged in age from early 20s to mid-60s. Aside from the three crew members, the group included an architect, a travel agent, a retired truck driver, a real estate developer and two priests. One man owned a sports-car dealership, another a business called Window Covers to Go. Three were returning from their honeymoons; others were going home to family reunions or graduations. If the passengers from Flight 847 had anything in common, it was probably a gnawing feeling shared...
DIED. Charles LeMaire, 88, designer of glittering, sumptuous costumes for Hollywood films from 1943 to 1960 and, before that, for more than 60 Broadway shows, including the '20s extravaganzas of Florenz Ziegfeld; in Palm Springs, Calif. After successfully campaigning for an Oscar category in costume design (it started in 1948), he was nominated 16 times and won for All About Eve (1950), The Robe (1953) and Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing...
...book," claims Martin, "I wouldn't be interested in publishing it." Black Sparrow began in 1966, when Martin, then an office- supply executive, sold his valuable collection of D.H. Lawrence first editions and decided to go into business for himself. He sedulously imitated a famed boutique publisher of the '20s, Black Sun, down to the art nouveau design and the name...
From the very beginning, the Mengele story has been riddled with irony and anomaly. Born in 1911 into the affluent family that controlled Gunzburg's main industry, Josef mastered his studies with ease and by his mid-20s had earned doctor of philosophy and medical degrees. After World War II broke out, Mengele decided that he could best serve Hitler's Reich as an SS doctor. In 1943 he was assigned to Auschwitz-Birkenau...
...baroque opera Medee last fall in France; Reich's music has been performed by major orchestras from San Francisco to Cologne. The next extraordinary concentration of creative artists is now probably taking shape. Wherever it turns out to be, it should be compared not with Paris in the '20s but to New York City just a decade...