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Curtis plans no immediate changes in the magazine, will leave Canadian-born Publisher Eaton and President-Editor Austin in their present jobs. Says Eaton: "We're very happy about the whole thing. In effect, we will be a subsidiary of Curtis...
Died. John Thoburn Williamson, 50, Canadian-born geologist, owner of the world's richest diamond mine (in Tanganyika), whose fortune was estimated at nearly $100 million; of cancer of the throat; in Mwadui, Tanganyika. Bachelor Williamson began diamond prospecting in South Africa in 1935, five years later struck a pipe eight times larger than South Africa's famed Kimberley Mine. Refusing to sell out to the De Beers cartel, Williamson nevertheless marketed his diamonds (average yearly output: $8,000,000 worth) through the syndicate, gave generously to African charities...
...racing in and out of games. The dancers tie themselves up in little knots and delight in getting out of them gracefully. As the music mocks itself-in a trumpet jeer or a pizzicato poke-the dancers mock the music with a hop, skip or bump. Most dramatic bits: Canadian-born Melissa Hayden's stunning solo variation and a languorous, sensual pas de deux exquisitely danced by Virginia-born Diana Adams and Arthur Mitchell, a talented Negro member of the company. The whole work takes less than 25 minutes, but it unmistakably shows Composer Stravinsky, 75, and Choreographer Balanchine...
...seemed by talent and temperament to have been a natural-born Hearst-man, he also had the luck to land in Los Angeles in the headiest heyday of the city and of Hearst newspapering. Hired at 19 by Hearst's old Los Angeles Herald (for $7.50 a week). Canadian-born Richardson shrewdly plied the creed he learned as a cub on the old Winnipeg Telegram: "Walk like a newspaperman...
...northwest Canada's wilderness-and convince oilmen of its treasures-is Frank M. McMahon, 54, chairman of Pacific Petroleums Ltd. and president of Westcoast Transmission, whose new 650-mile pipeline will start carrying gas this fall from the Peace River area to Vancouver and the U.S. border. The Canadian-born son of a wandering hard-rock miner, Oilman McMahon quit college to become a prospector himself, bounced from drilling rig to drilling rig until the 1940s, when he moved into the Peace River area above Edmonton in search of gas and oil. When the provincial government lifted leasehold restrictions...