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...Painter Bernard Buffet, and choreographed (by Americans John Taras and Don Lurio) for the most part like a Broadway musical. Visually (and for the box office), its handsomest parts belong to a splendidly configured blonde named Noelle Adam in a seductress role that fits her like a leotard. Best dancer in the company proved to be a regular of the Royal Danish Ballet named Toni Lander, who managed as the wife to make her final-act love scene with the dying hero far more evocative than blonde Dancer Adam's more celebrated writhings on a banister and around...
...Yaghjian (pronounced Yog-jun), 33, founder of the semiprofessional Fresno (Calif.) orchestra; Norway's Sverre Bruland, 35. Conductor Steinberg, 58, was disappointed, but not particularly surprised that the contest did not turn up the "fair-haired wonder boy we were looking for." Said he: "Conducting is, in its best sense, conveying experience. How can young men convey experience...
...Best There Is. A breach with the Times led the Britannica to sponsorship, for a short period, by Cambridge University. Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald took it to Chicago in 1920 when it was purchased by his firm, Sears, Roebuck & Co. In 1943 Sears turned over the Britannica to the University of Chicago, with William Benton, sometime adman (Benton & Bowles) and U.S. Senator, putting up $100,000 as working capital...
...owned for half a century) and Americanization. A more serious objection sometimes heard: that the work is too scholarly for laymen, too elementary for scholars. But despite criticism, the encyclopedia's swarm of salesmen boast, with much justification: "When you buy the Britannica, you are getting the best there is"-all 38,258,426 words...
Runyon's sawed-off Napoleon was a wiry Chicago southpaw pitcher named Dickie Kerr who had just won his second game for the White Sox in baseball's most embarrassing World Series. Behind him, some of the best players in the history of the game had played like bushers. Shoeless Joe Jackson, perhaps the greatest outfielder of them all, was unaccountably awkward under easy flies; Swede Risberg, the sure-handed shortstop, was fielding grounders with his feet; First Baseman Chick Gandil seemed asleep on the sack. But sawed-off Kerr had pitched his heart out against the Cincinnati...