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Shepley was born to journalism. His father was editor of the Harris- burg (Pa.) Daily Patriot. Jim cubbed on that paper after attending Dickinson College, went on to the Pittsburgh Press and the United Press. He worked for the U.P. in Washington until 1942, when he joined TIME'S bureau in the capital. To be a Washington correspondent had been the dream of his youth...
WAIT A MINIM! There are two sets of stars in this musical revue from Johannes burg: a talented octet of young South African satirists, dancers and singers, and the mbira, timbila, kalimba, tampura drone, and other jungle instruments so primitive they are supersophisticated, so ancient they seem avant garde...
...ambition to reassert the dynasty, Siegmund Warburg faces a frustration. His only son left the firm to start his own accounting business, and the two men are not close. The War burg future seems to depend on the smaller branch in Germany, where Eric Warburg is carefully bringing along his 18-year-old son, also an American...
...garret and into the sun he'll come bandying his sheet of convoluted prose only to be greeted with a recent erasure in Webster's New Collegiate. Exactly what he'll find where urban community development once stood is hard to say -- perhaps something like "better burg breeding" or "coached community commotion" or any one of a thousand possible locutions which would shed an aura of respectability on an undertaking whose very nature suggests a lurking, sleight-of-hand presence...
...those with specialized tastes, there are all-Mozart programs in Würz-burg (June 13-20) and Augsburg, Germany (July 3-Aug. 14), the famed Wagner Ring cycle in Bayreuth (July 25-Aug. 30), Beethoven in Bonn (Sept. 19-Oct. 10), not to mention the first annual International Mandolin Festival in Verviers, Belgium (July 3). Florence's Maggio Musicale (through June 20) will repeat its popular production of Director-Set Designer Franco Zef-ferelli's Euridice, while Composer Gian Carlo Menotti's Festival of Two Worlds at Spoleto, Italy (June 24-July 18), will augment...