Word: columbias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...than his father, John has Ike's grin and his parents' blue eyes, the Eisenhower receding hairline. His entire life has been touched by the climactic moments of his father's career as the top Allied commander of World War II, President of Columbia University, head of NATO forces, and finally President of the U.S. Few Presidents' sons have handled themselves so well. Says one Army friend: "Most of us have to fight to get ahead, but John can't throw his weight around, since it might reflect on his father...
Assigned to West Point as an English instructor, Scholar John housed his growing family in a tiny walk-up apartment, enrolled at Columbia University (where his father soon became President) to earn his M.A. in English literature. (Thesis: The Soldier as a Character in Elizabethan Drama.) In mid-1952, while his father campaigned for the presidency against Adlai Stevenson, John went off to his first combat in Korea, was assigned to one of Ike's old prewar outfits, the 1st Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment. As G-3 (Operations) and later as a 3rd Division Intelligence officer for 14 months...
...Edinburgh Festival, tempestuous Soprano Maria Callas waved a note from her doctor, walked out on Milan's La Piccola Scala (her second such disappearance this summer), said she was going back to Italy, explained: "I'm tired." In Hollywood, irked by a long-term contract with Columbia Pictures that calls for a humiliating $1,250 a week, straw-haired Kim Novak refused to show up for a film, was suspended by her exasperated bosses just in time to catch a hopperful of publicity as her latest film, Jeanne Eagels, opened in Manhattan...
Currently, to see if he is a lasting hitmaker, Columbia is trying out Mathis and his husky, finely phrasing voice on a new album of ballads...
JOHNNY MATHIS, 21, who was a San Francisco State College sophomore and a high-jump star when Columbia Records heard him singing in his spare time in a San Francisco nightclub. His first, heavily jazz-oriented album limped along un-spectacularly; his first single, Wonderful, Wonderful, attracted scant attention at first. Then it began to light boards in San Francisco and Boston and edge up onto the bestseller charts in the trade press. Another single, It's Not for Me to Say made the charts, too (No. 16 last week...