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Word sifted from the State Department that Career Diplomat Charles E. T. ("Chip") Bohlen, 54, longtime (1950-57) Russian-speaking U.S. Ambassador to the U.S.S.R., and since then Ambassador to the Philippines, may soon go back to Washington, become top adviser of State's brand-new Soviet-affairs desk...
...fight time, Patterson was a solid 5-1 favorite despite the nagging fact that he had been open to right hands throughout his coddled career, had been decked by the powderpuff blows of Roy Harris and Pete Rademacher. In fact, since he won the title in 1956 by defeating Archie Moore, Patterson had fought no competent heavyweights...
Nobody in his time understood the English eardrum better than George Frederick Handel, and nobody played on it with more conspicuous success. It was the wonder of his career that this adopted son who spoke a heavily Teutonic-flavored English and shaped his musical style after the Italians managed to leave his bulky imprint on England as no composer before or since. When he was buried with regal pomp in Westminster Abbey in 1759, 3,000 people attended the ceremony, and the press reminded its readers that Handel was to music what "Mr. Pope was in poetry." Last week, with...
...toted his passport application (for a planned trip to Red China) to the State Department for approval. What's more, Harriman had brought along a collaborator almost as impressive: Charles W. Thayer, brother-in-law of ex-U.S. Ambassador to Russia Charles E. Bohlen and himself a career diplomat (including four years in Russia) turned freelance writer (Bears in the Caviar, The Unquiet Germans). Thayer's job was to act as combination guide and ghost...
...heroine of the play is surely the most captivating one Shakespeare ever created. And every actress wants a crack at the part at some time in her career. The American Shakespeare Festival is lucky to be enjoying the services of Inga Swenson; her Juliet is by far the greatest asset of this production, and, indeed, the finest Juliet I have ever seen...