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...These things," said Manuel Ycaza, "are beneath the dignity of a man whose family has a coat of arms." The things that Jockey Ycaza (pronounced ee-kah-za) was talking about were the tactics that once won him the reputation of racing's roughest rider. But Ycaza, at 22, is already a reformed fellow. And though he is calmly vague about the details of his coat of arms (asked what it is, he replies: "Why, it is a coat of arms for the Ycaza family"), many a follower of the new Ycaza might suggest that it be a whip...
...Pronounced Ee...
...pies (pronounced Top-ee-ess) has the proud bearing of a bullfighter, has been called the black prince of contemporary art. Urged to follow his father in the practice of law, he turned to art when a serious bout with tuberculosis ended his career at the University of Barcelona. Hospitalized for two years, he learned exquisite draftsmanship, developed a consuming interest in the devious disciplines of surrealism...
...little breadwinner is on the boards again, in its first New York revival since 1924. With riotous good faith and not the hint of a blush, Fashion trots out the family Tiffany, a nouveau riche clan headed by a mother given to haughty generalizations on the conduct of the "ee-light" and a father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant girl emerges as the daughter of Adam Trueman. a bewhiskered...
...grew up, traveled to Manhattan, made a hit record with her own song called Lollipop. Later, she moved Columbia's Mitch Miller to frenzies of promotional enthusiasm with two more of her darkling juvenile fancies-Headlights and Stop Laughing at Me ("I will always have that memor-ee"). Most promising of the fledgling singer-composers is a 19-year-old Juilliard piano student named Neil Sedaka, who scored a hit with his recording (for RCA Victor) of a loosely rocking ditty called The Diary ("When it's late at night/ What is the name you write/ In your...