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...Soul. Not even Nancy White was immune, for Brady, as her boss, took an active, daily interest in Bazaar. Nonetheless, both insisted last week that the parting was genuinely sorrowful. "I think he's nifty," said Nancy of Brady, who returned the compliment in a memo to the staff: "She's been the soul and sinew of Bazaar." From now on, though, the soul will be solely Brady...
...seemed to be music-criticism time in Russia-with special emphasis on the backhanded compliment. U.S. Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, in Moscow for a congress of the International Music Council, said that he thought Soviet music was moving toward a "certain measure of sophistication." It used to be that "only one approach was tolerated," explained Menuhin. "But now they are beginning to see that there may be two or more approaches to anything. That is what I mean by sophistication." Also in Moscow, Russian Poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko commented on the sound of the great Duke Ellington, whose band has been packing...
...this attention obviously satisfies Connally's high image of himself. "I'm at the White House more than I ever was when L.B.J. was President," he says. He also amply returns the compliment implicit in the President's interest in him. "You've got a great President here," he tells unquestioning White House aides. "You ought to support him to the hilt." When he sits with Nixon and a group of businessmen, he will drop in such phrases as "Under the President's effective leadership..." He recently told friends: "What I admire most about Nixon is his raw political guts...
...Mamie Eisenhower, where his piano rendition of Happy Birthday sounded only one wrong note. He hosted a retirement party for Douglas Cornell, 65, an Associated Press correspondent who has covered seven Presidents in 43 years of White House assignments. Nixon ribbed his sometimes critical press followers with a backhanded compliment. "When I have to write anything, it's hard work," he said. "That's why I admire newspaper correspondents. You just write off the top of your head...
...unused footage from an old Gorman opus entitled The Terror. The finished film, Targets, contained a virtuoso Shootout scene at a drive-in theater. Said Director Howard Hawks: "That stuff's good and it's hard to do." Says Bogdanovich: "To me, that was the ultimate compliment...