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NIGHTS IN NEW YORK, proclaimed a Manhattan ticket broker in an ad last week, adding the suggestion that it would be a mighty nice thing if everybody did as Jack did. True enough, John Kennedy had dropped in for a performance of the musical comedy Do Re Mi-but that occasion was perhaps the least restless of his breakneck week. Winging about to Massachusetts, Manhattan, Washington and Florida, he examined reports from nine study groups, announced a score of appointments, went fishing, played golf, worked on his inaugural address-and came out of it all appearing eager for more...
...even then, Jackie Bouvier seemed somehow removed from her group; her friends noticed it and still recall it. In 1940 her parents were divorced. Two years later, Janet Bouvier married Hugh D. Auchincloss, a Washington broker, but Black Jack, who died in 1957, never remarried. Jackie adored her father, and her eyes still glisten when she speaks of him. "He was a most devastating figure," she says. "At school all my friends adored him, and used to line up to be taken out to dinner when he came...
Insurance men have played their part in show business at least since Go-for-Broker Arthur Stebbins, nephew of 20th Century-Fox's former Board Chairman Joe Schenck, talked Mack Sennett into taking a $500,000 policy on cross-eyed Ben Turpin to protect Sennett if Turpin's eyes should decide to go straight. Self-proclaimed originator of "the scarface policy," Stebbins later arranged insurance for Eddie Cantor's eyes, Jimmy Durante's nose, Marlene Dietrich's legs. Of course, the real purpose was publicity, and for sheer newsworthiness no policy before or since...
Last week Brookings. acting in its role as "broker in ideas and men." dedicated a new $3,900,000 Center for Advanced Study to bring together scholars, officials, politicians, businessmen and journalists-all of them sorely in need of a chance to see the forest for the trees. Under a plan costing $13 million in all, Brookings aims to create Washington's first real Delphi-a place for probing the hidden patterns of modern society and assuring the "intellectual preparedness" of key Americans...
Talented Local. In the opinion of Bindo Missiroli, an insurance broker who founded the Bergamo festival in 1937 (it was interrupted by the war), post-Puccini Italians of both the verismo and the twelve-tone school are "still the world's greatest opera composers. In Germany the modernists use the voice as another instrument, seldom giving importance to the word. Italians want to under stand what's going on." The biggest hit of the festival last week was the world première of a 143-year-old one-acter titled Pygmalion, composed not by a modern twelve...