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...father doesn't have enough money for his three daughters' dowries, dooming them, apparently, to forced prostitution, Nicholas leaves three bags of gold outside the girls' home (or, according to a different version of the story, in their shoes) to keep them from having to pull an Ashley Alexandra Dupré. This is one of the few stories based on some sort of historical record and it explains Nicholas' reputation as a gift-giver...
JUNK FOR SALE says the sign in front of the three-bedroom house for which Leigh DuPré pays the Panama Canal Co. $169 a month. A clerk in the company's rate office, DuPre, 40, is going home with his wife and four children after nine years in the Canal Zone. "We don't want to live where there is no U.S. jurisdiction," he explains simply. Janet DuPree (no kin), 33, a kindergarten teacher in the zone and granddaughter of one of the workers who helped dig the big ditch, betrays the festering bitterness of many...
...barn and taught himself to play, practicing up to 16 hours a day. At ten he was the organist of the First Presbyterian Church. At 20 he graduated with top honors from Baltimore's Peabody Conservatory of Music, then studied with the celebrated French organist Marcel Dupré before returning to head Peabody's organ department...
...threat that the hotel employees see to the three Paris landmarks comes from the sale by their present owner, Madame Francois Dupré, to a British chain: Airport Catering Service, a joint venture of British European Airways and Hostelry Magnate Charles Forte. Winning out over Pan American's Intercontinental hotel chain and the Grand Metropolitan hotel group of Britain with a bid of about $25 million, A.C.S. carried off three jewels worthy of crowning anyone's hotel empire...
...three new labels, Seraphim ("Angels of the highest order") has the brightest roster of musicians, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Philips' World Series has less prominent but still lustrous names (Clara Haskil, Marcel Dupré) and an equally broad selection of works. Epic's Crossroads, the only one of the trio with all recent, all truly stereophonic recordings, has culled its list from that of the Czechoslovak firm Supraphon and thus gives voice to the Czech Philharmonic, the Smetana Quartet, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Some jewels in new settings...