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The man who pulls all of these acts together is high-strung Max Liebman, 43, producer, director and owner of the precious package. For 16 years, Liebman has been in & out of the Poconos, Broadway and Hollywood (he helped tailor a number of the routines that made Danny Kaye famous...
By the end of the '30s, MacNeice dropped such high jinks and concentrated on introspective poems about personal life. His characteristic poetry was now modest, quiet and friendly; he contented himself with small observations and neat lyrics.
Utah Pies. The atmosphere of sweet reasonableness was so pervasive that N.A.M. brought forth none of the resolutions that often raise the hackles of more liberal businessmen. It contented itself with a mild request that the U.S. budget be held to a $37 billion ceiling, and a plea for a...
The scene showed how not-so-puritanical New Englanders used to carry on in foreign ports. Entitled Sea Captains Carousing in Surinam, it was painted in 1758 by a footloose portraitist named John Greenwood (who put himself in the picture, holding a candle at the door), and was recently bought...
As soon as he found his own painting style, he found a market and critical acclaim, for Dufy's art is nothing if not charming. Today he lives in a comfortably bourgeois house surrounded by maple trees in Perpignan. "Every night," he told a recent visitor, "I go to...