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Remarried that year to the former Carol Fox Fuhrman (they had a daughter, Cynthia, in 1964, and Punch adopted his wife's daughter Cathy), Sulzberger now divides off-duty hours between his Fifth Avenue apartment and a modern, eleven-room cypress-and-glass house on his mother's 300-acre estate in suburban Stamford, Conn. Both residences are furnished in what one disapproving family member calls "Howard Johnson decorator stuff." Another upgrades it to "Bloomingdale's pleasant." Sulzberger drinks vodka on the rocks and eats hamburgers at his favorite restaurant, Manhattan's 21 Club...
Transformed by Dignity. On the bare cypress-wood stage of the Nō theater, the actor's robe is both costume and set. Its stiff, voluminous folds, bulked out with padding and under-robes, suggest architecture. The actors move slowly-Nō acting is more remarkable for stateliness than agility -and the audience has time to inspect the details of a costume. (Nevertheless, the work represented in the Tokugawa collection can hardly have been fully appreciated onstage, any more than the craftsmanship of a medieval chasuble can be discerned from the church pews.) It follows that...
Saturday there's going to a lot of action on the Charles, the river that is the source of much of our drinking and cleaning water. After a team from Cypress Gardens does an early morning workout for the water skiing show, the Harvard crew teams will take over. Both the heavies and the lights will be in action. The heavies will battle the bumbling Bruins of Brown (abominable alliteration) with the frosh rowing at 9:30, the JV's at 11:15, and the varsity at noon. The races will determine who wins the Stein...
...Andrews that Bobby Jones first met the Scotchman Alister Mackenzie, whom he later hired to design the Augusta National. Mackenzie was an outstanding British golf course architect who designed Cypress Point and shared Jones's views on the game...
...carpet 50 yards ahead of us stood Mao's funeral bier, a glass-topped coffin planted in a bed of bright green grasses, layered with formal yellow chrysanthemums and red hibiscuses in full bloom. Dominating that end of the hall, above rows of pine and cypress, was a giant portrait of the Chairman. A white-lettered streamer read, "We mourn with deepest grief the great leader and teacher, Chairman Mao Tse-tung...