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Enter a Goddess. Soon afterward, at a student performance, Soprano Price was heard by Producer Robert Breen, who was then signing a cast for a revival of Porgy and Bess. At Breen's request, Leontyne sang for Ira Gershwin/ Loves You, Porgy and Slimmer time. Before the audition, she stood despairingly with a friend on a Broadway street corner. "Nothing's going to happen," she said. "Nothing can happen." By nightfall she had the female lead...
...bookstore while waiting for the next train, and picks up a book that might alter his life forever. Another, taking a walk in the country, comes to a fork in the lane, hesitates, chooses the left turn rather than the right, and meets the girl he will marry. Afterward, men often look back upon such events and call them inevitable...
...biggest buildup by colleagues as the Administration's "strongman" is McGeorge Bundy, 41, Kennedy's special assistant on national security affairs. Yaleman Bundy earned his reputation as a dynamo at Harvard, where he became dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at 34, and, soon afterward, a force on university administration councils. Kennedy is well aware of Bundy's growing prestige and says with a chuckle: "I think I'll continue to have residual functions...
...about $5 to $25 per sketch for piecework-and the risks were high. One chill night, Harper's Artist Theodore R. Davis, sharing his threadbare blanket with a Union soldier, waked at dawn to find his bedfellow dead beside him. "It was plain.'' wrote Davis afterward, ''that but for the intervention of his head the bullet would have gone through my own." To oblige Major General George G. Meade, Harper's Special Artist Alfred R. Waud scaled a tree to draw the enemy lines - and enemy fire. "Rebel sharpshooters," he wrote, "kept...
...that Fowler had the kind of mind that files what other people forget. If one wants to know it, Skyline is the place to find out that a buck-and-wing dancer named Charles B. Lawler composed and sold The Sidewalks of New York for "a few dollars" and afterward went blind...