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...ringing telephone shattered the silence in the bedroom of a two-story brick duplex in Philadelphia's Burholme Park section one morning last week. Associated Press Newsman Lee L. Linder, 38, looked at his watch. It was 3 a.m. Groggy with sleep, he lifted the receiver off the hook. "Who is it?" demanded his wife Thelma. "The FBI," Linder said. "They've got their nerve," said his wife. "Hang up on them." Linder did. But within the hour, two FBI agents were knocking at the Linders' door, and Linder let them in. As he talked...
...Fantasia. Movie Producer Sam Spiegel hired Architect Edward Stone (TIME cover, March 31, 1958) to build a glossy Park Avenue duplex penthouse. With the help of his wife Maria, Stone turned the place into a never-never land of white marble, pink silk, Turkish lamps and other assorted fixtures of Cinemascopic proportions. The sunken marble tub is merely outsize; the master's bed looks roughly like a polo field covered in cardinal red velvet. Like all dedicated cinemagnates, Spiegel has his own home-projection facilities. The wide screen is hidden behind curtains. When he wants...
...because Tennessee Williams does have the audacity of his own peculiar and tormented vision that Kalem finds him stimulating as a playwright and sympathetic as a man. They talked together for about ten hours, often in Kalem's Greenwich Village duplex, along with Researcher Anne Hollister and Mrs. Kalem (who used to be a TIME books researcher until she married Kalem and became the mother of two children). Their sessions went so well that the resulting cover story may not provide the best illustration of one of Kalem's favorite definitions (by the late Critic Percy Hammond): "Dramatic...
...wandering and unpredictable eye on these enterprises from a variety of homes: a 33-acre farm in New Jersey, a 117-acre estate in Hollywood, a town house near London's Hyde Park, a villa at Cap d'Antibes, a hacienda in Palm Beach, a 13-room duplex in Manhattan hung with Rubens, Winslow Homer and Mary Cassatt...
...house painter, Stern made his Manhattan debut at 17 ("I wasn't the greatest thing since Mozart"), but had to wait seven more years before he was able to start a successful concert career. Now an almost compulsive concertizer, he is rarely in his Manhattan duplex, averages a brain-fogging 125 concerts and recitals a year...