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True of some, but not of Nathaniel Merrill, the resident stage director of the Metropolitan Opera, whose eleven productions are among the best that the company has ever mounted. The youngest (40) and first American-born director ever to hold that post, Merrill is almost devoid of flamboyance or gimmickry. Unlike such glamorous directors as Franco Zeffirelli and Luchino Visconti, whose personal styles sometimes interfere with musical values, Merrill subordinates himself to the score. Like a musical detective, he searches it and the libretto for clues that will evoke a fresh visualization onstage...
Divorced. By Stirling Moss, 38, Britain's retired Grand Prix ace: Elaine Moss, 28, his American-born wife; on uncontested grounds of adultery; after four years of marriage, one child; in London...
...recorded for the first time, is attributed to the youthful Brahms by a scholar who found the unsigned manuscript in 1924. The well-known B Major is still the strongest of the trios, and its adagio is beautifully sung by the deep bronze-voiced cello of Bernard Greenhouse, the American-born member of the international Beaux Arts Trio, whose voices blend smoothly together and also echo each other lightly and precisely...
Bricks & Mortar. One of two Ruthenian bishops in the U.S., Elko for twelve years has been the spiritual leader of 220,000 souls in 120 scattered parishes from Pittsburgh to Alaska. The first American-born priest ever to become a Ruthenian prelate, Elko was in many respects a typical U.S. bishop: a blunt, tough, brick-and-mortar administrator who built 93 new churches and schools for his diocese. Nonetheless, his no-nonsense ways managed to offend both liberals and conservatives in his far-flung...
Married. Constantine FitzGibbon, 48, prolific American-born novelist (When the Kissing Had to Stop) and biographer (The Life of Dylan Thomas); and Marjorie Steele Hartford Sutton, 37, a sometime painter more widely remembered for forfeiting a cool $60,000 annual alimony from her first husband, A. & P. Heir Huntington Hartford, to marry No. 2, British Actor Dudley Sutton; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Bantry, Ireland...