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DIED. Frank Peavey Heffelfinger, 81, former chairman of Peavey Co., a century-old Minneapolis grain firm; in Minneapolis. He spent his career in the family business but took time out to serve as regional director of the War Production Board under Franklin Roosevelt and as finance chairman of Dwight Eisenhower's Republican National Committee...
...three evenings a week, he stands in front of Broadway theaters, performing baritone arias from The Marriage of Figaro or La Traviata to the accompaniment of a tape recorder. A Yale liberal arts graduate and a former high school science teacher, Leuze has been trying to launch a career with small opera companies in the New York area. "It usually blows someone's mind to hear me in full voice on the street," he says. Once, as he was approaching the climactic A-flat in the prologue to I Pagliacci, a bus stopped between him and his audience. Without...
...Baird and the Spaeths, are literal vagabonds as well, carried by caprice along informal circuits of such cities as Boston, San Francisco, Seattle, New Orleans and Key West. A folk quartet called the Nee Ningy Band has also covered Africa and Western and Eastern Europe during its ten-year career. Consisting of fiddle, harmonica, bodhran (a flat goatskin drum) and penny whistle, the group takes its name from the sound the fiddle makes-nee ningy, nee ningy, nee ningy. Its members carry camping equipment, often stay in local homes. Says Violinist Rachel Maloney: "You learn to live with the insecurity...
Collected Stories: 1939-1976 provides a chance to isolate and trace one strand of Bowles' remarkable career. The book's 39 tales are not only worth reading on their own, but their assembly should dispel several myths that have grown up around Bowles' work. First, spreading his talent wide has not meant that he spread it thin; any short list of the best contemporary American stories should include two or three from this volume. Second, Bowles' reputation as a pitiless chronicler of the bizarre and sadistic is undeserved; many of his stories are unquestionably grotesque...
...easy on a pop establishment that was still recovering from flower power and cuddling up to the peaceful, easy feeling of the California sound. The Dolls made two records and then, in 1975, broke apart like true rock-'n'-roll kamikazes. Drug problems. Women problems. Career stalemates...