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The Lowdown. In the early letters, the bombast is most conspicuous. "Skoal to the stanchless flux," young Durrell ends one letter. ''Shakespeare lack'd art" and "wrote from the waist down," he proclaims. Soon, however, it can be learned that Durrell is on to his avuncular admirer...
Dillon's testimony did not satisfy the Congressmen-least of all Arkansas' Mills. He has long cherished the goal of drastically revising the income tax laws, combining deep rate cuts with a closing or narrowing of the tax code's numerous routes of tax avoidance. He wants...
Born into an impoverished, nonmusical family Debussy had virtually no formal schooling as a child. Unpopular with the more hidebound instructors at the conservatory, he still managed to win the coveted Grand Prix de Rome by tossing off a composition (L'Enfant Prodigue) in deliberate imitation of Lalo and...
No Other Reason. Debussy did not start his first important work-the Prelude a I'Aprés-midi d'un Fame-until he was 30. But during the next 15 years, he wrote enough to secure any composers reputation, including the revolutionary piano pieces, in which by...
At 20, Clay has undoubtedly traveled farther by mouth alone than any fighter in modern years. Winner of the 1960 Olympic light-heavyweight championship, he has fought only 16 pro bouts, and although he has won them all, his opponents have either been downsliding veterans like Moore, who were dazzled...