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...some of them will be published under the title, Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. The car's owner, Commander Caractacus Pott, fortyish, is rather like Commander James Bond, except that he has a family, and the car, a supercharged Paragon Panther, is a near cousin to 007's Bentley. "You see those knobs and levers and lights on the dashboard?" asks Pott. "We'll find out what they're for in time." But of course...
...Sweat. Heifetz lives alone; he has been twice divorced. He prefers small dinners with close friends to the glamour bashes, though his acquaintance among the stars has always been extensive, and when he zips around, he does his zipping in a grey Bentley. Piatigorsky's wife Jacqueline, a daughter of the late Baron Edouard de Rothschild, is a busy painter, sometime bassoon player, and alltime chess addict who ranks as one of the top ten women players in the U.S. Gregor counters with writing (he has written an autobiography), oceanography and herpetology ("Snakes are so misunderstood...
...Times finally noticed its absence with a theater-page obituary, but others seemed less willing to say farewell to Theater Arts (last circulation: 50,000): neither the printer, who refused to distribute the February issue until the magazine paid an overdue bill for $31,000; nor Editor-Publisher Byron Bentley, who kept his office open until May 28, when the phone was disconnected; nor Movie Distributor Sidney Kaufman, who has been vainly trying since last fall to buy out Bentley's interest. But unlike Publisher Hartford, no one was prepared to set a definite date for another issue...
...devastating of his 15 essays, Who Is We?, concerns the 107 (Elliott's count) grand poohbahs who dominate the U.S. cultural scene from Man hattan's Morningside Heights area. They are the "Diors and Schiaparellis of intellectual fashion design," in Elliott's phrase, and include Eric Bentley, Jacques Barzun, Lionel and Diana Trilling. "What they think today," says he, "you're apt to find yourself, in a Sears, Roebuckish way, sort of thinking tomorrow." Documenting the We group's insulation from reality, Elliott notes a complaint by Mary McCarthy that when a visiting French existentialist...
...last three sets of lectures have been by Eric Bentley on literature, Plor Luigi Nervi on architecture, and Leo Schrude on music and drama...