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...colleagues ("Those slobwogs!"). Last year, he won a Pulitzer Prize for his Third Symphony, unplayed for 36 years while the manuscript gathered dust in his barn. After receiving the prize, he granted a rare newspaper interview. When a reporter congratulated him, he refused to shake hands, roared: "Prizes, bah! What do I care for prizes! They are the badge of mediocrity...
Vital Ingredient. In a busy lifetime, Burton Rascoe, Manhattan critic and literary Pooh-Bah, had been called a lot of other things, but never an economist. In his latest book of reminiscences, We Were Interrupted (Doubleday; $4), he pays his respects to the craft. His conclusion: "Economics is, by and large, pure mythology. . . . Any economic plan is workable just so long, and only so long, as it is sustained by faith...
...Jersey City, ex-Mayor Frank Hague, onetime political Pooh-Bah of New Jersey (and longtime embarrassment to Franklin Roosevelt), tossed some pearls to a gathering of rookie cops and firemen. "Stay out of the clutches of money lenders and don't get tied up with liquor," advised his ex-honor. "That's why I was successful. I had will power...
...humble parish priest named Padre Antonio Ribeiro Pinto. By last week he had become a national figure. To seek his blessing, thousands of Brazilians were traveling by special train, by chartered taxi and by bus and truck from as far south as Porto Alegre and as far north as Bahía. Reported TIME Correspondent William White, who went to see for himself...
...crimson carpet spilled down the steps of the yellow sandstone Sind Provincial Legislative Assembly Building in Karachi. A turbaned, barefoot Moslem carefully dusted it off, pressed it with an enormous flatiron. All was now ready for the Pooh-Bah of Pakistan, in whose austere person are combined the offices of Governor General, President of the Constituent Assembly and President of the Moslem League. With proper crustiness, Mohamed Ali Jinnah strode up the steps with his sister Fatima. He was wearing a white achkan (long coat), grey fur "Jinnah cap" and a monocle. The small crowd (5,000) shouted "Quaid...