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...Bartlett Giamatti, 43, lovable but rumpled president of Yale, comparing himself with dapper Predecessor Kingman Brewster: "I don't have his beautiful suits, but I wouldn't look good in them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 20, 1981 | 7/20/1981 | See Source »

...native Leipzig, has built it into one of the nation's leading suppliers of historical illustrations to book publishers, magazines, television and films. Some of the archive's vast repository has even showed up on T shirts and cereal boxes. Last week the founder-now a dapper, energetic 77-and Hans P. Kraus, a Manhattan rare-book dealer, announced that the Bettmann Archive was being sold to the Kraus-Thomson Organization Ltd., a small international publishing firm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: From Freud to Bicycling Monks | 3/23/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Russell Procope, 72, dapper, goateed jazz clarinetist and saxophonist who was a fixture in the Duke Ellington Orchestra; in New York City. After playing with Chick Webb, Fletcher Henderson and the John Kirby Sextet, Procope joined the Duke in 1945, bringing his low, mellow sound to such Ellington compositions as 4:30 Blues and Swamp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Feb. 2, 1981 | 2/2/1981 | See Source »

DIED. Yakov Malik, 73, dapper, irascible Soviet diplomat who twice served as Moscow's United Nations delegate; in Moscow. He is chiefly remembered, at least in the West, for boycotting the Security Council to protest its refusal in 1950 to recognize Communist China; this helped clear the way for the U.N. to assist South Korea against the Soviet-backed North Korean invasion. A dependable apparatchik, he once told a Western diplomat: "I must obey my instructions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 25, 1980 | 2/25/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Richard Franko Goldman, 69, music scholar, composer and conductor who was president of Baltimore's Peabody Institute from 1969 to 1977 and leader of New York City's nationally known Goldman Band for the past 24 seasons; after a long illness; in Baltimore. Though the dapper musician was 19 when he first led the march-and-swing ensemble that his father Edwin had founded in 1911, he started out pursuing loftier strains by studying composition and teaching at Manhattan's Juilliard School. When he took over the 56-member band in 1956, he had it play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 4, 1980 | 2/4/1980 | See Source »

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