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...Mahavishnu Orchestra through a shattering set of jazz-rock at Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard turned in a fiery performance as a stand-in for Miles Davis. And the "Connoisseur Concerts" that Wein booked into Carnegie Hall presented such acquired tastes as the abstract expressionism of Pianist Cecil Taylor. In all, there was enough youth and promise on stage -and in the audiences-to make the festival a meeting ground not only of the past and present, but of the past and future as well...
...will follow in the trochees of the late Cecil Day-Lewis as Britain's 19th poet laureate? No hurry about it, of course-there was a seven-month wait last time, after the death of John Masefield in 1967. But the British press is already kicking names around. Most of the names don't seem to be overjoyed at the thought of the honor, which carries a yearly stipend of $182, plus $70 "in lieu of a butt of sack." Says Poet Stephen Spender, 63: "I do not want to do anything that would make me more hated...
...Died. Cecil Day-Lewis, 68, Irish-born critic, novelist and poet laureate of England; of cancer; in Hertfordshire, England. C. Day-Lewis came to prominence during the '30s as one of the Oxford poets, a group that included W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender. His work mixed slang, sardonic wit and radical thought in poetic-political commentary. By 1968 Day-Lewis had moved far enough away from Marxism to become poet laureate, but he enjoyed his greatest popularity as Nicholas Blake, the pseudonym he used in writing more than a score of moneymaking detective stories...
...something to do with milk cartons. David Little and Bill Burke won the "PT 109 Award" for the best design for speed that lost anyway The "Carpenter Center Award" for the most creative craft went to Robert Livingston and his bag filled with balloons, and Mickey Mouse copped the "Cecil B. deMille Award", for the "biggest production...
...belated boom in thatched roofs? "It's the London people who are coming out here," says Dodson, "buying their weekend cottages and fixing them up." Explains Designer-Photographer Sir Cecil Beaton, who is so enamored of thatch that he even thatches his garden walls: "I champion beauty and impracticability...