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...styles of several virtuosos-Arrau, Backhaus, Brailowsky, Casadesus, Janis and Kempff-in a single benefit concert for the U.N. Commission for World Refugees. The program hitches together the warhorses of the piano repertory, but they are played with freshness and excitement. Standouts are Wilhelm Backhaus' definitive "Moonlight" Sonata, Byron Janis' unabashedly grand performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and Wilhelm Kempff's crystalline playing of Schubert's Impromptu in G Major...
Divorced. Byron Janis, 37, virtuoso U.S. concert pianist; by June Dickson-Wright, 33, daughter of British Surgeon Arthur Dickson-Wright; on grounds of incompatibility; after eleven years of marriage, one child; in Juarez, Mexico. Died. Shirley Jackson, 45, master of seance fiction, author of The Lottery, chilling tale of a 20th century New England village's annual rite of human sacrifice, and dozens more stories and novels (Hangsaman, We Have Always Lived in the Castle) so horrific that it always surprised readers to learn that all this came from a contented wife and good-humored mother of four...
...With Fortas' appointment, the Supreme Court will take on a decided Eli tinge. Justices Potter Stewart and Byron White also attended Yale, and Justice William O. Douglas was a member of the faculty before he joined the New Deal. No other law school can claim more than one of the court's nine Justices...
...police had refused to let him see his lawyer, who was actually waiting in the station house at the time. Though vaguely worded, the court's ruling indicated that the right to counsel begins when police start grilling a prime suspect-a plainly impractical proposition, declared dissenting Justice Byron White "unless police cars are equipped with public defenders...
...story for Esquire on the teenage fad of customizing cars, he found himself unable to write a word. Editor Byron Dobell told him to type out his notes; somebody else would be assigned to write them up. Wolfe began typing the notes as a letter to Editor Dobell, which went on all night and added up to 49 pages. This, word for word, was The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, and from then on Wolfe tried to write his pieces as though he were writing a letter to one man, putting down all the irrelevant digressions and self-indulgent...