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...JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS. Four talented performers present the Belgian composer's songs of lyrical beauty and startling intuitions...
...JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS. Four talented performers present the Belgian composer's songs of lyrical beauty and startling intuitions...
...JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS is a crystalline evening of songs that avoid sentimentality yet move deeply...
...Pont de Nemours & Co., the world's largest chemical firm, last week named the twelfth president in its 165-year history. He succeeds Lammot du Pont Copeland, 62, who moves up to chairman. While he becomes only the second president from outside the Du Pont family, Charles Brelsford ("Brel") McCoy, 58, hardly ranks as an interloper. Son of a onetime Du Pont vice president, McCoy has two sons and a brother working for the com pany, and his sister Anne is married to Du Pont Secretary Henry T. Bush. An other brother is Landscape Painter John McCoy...
...Brel McCoy's own connection with Du Pont began when he worked for the company during summer vacations from college. After graduating from the University of Virginia (Phi Beta Kappa) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (master's degree in chemical engineering), he hired on full time in 1932 as a lowly cellophane-machine operator before advancing into such jobs as chemist, industrial engineer and purchasing agent. He rose through a succession of middle-management jobs, in 1960 became chief of Du Pont's explosives division. The following year he was named vice president and a member...