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...years of law studies at London's Inner Temple. He also had the money and appetite for fashionable parties in the West End, and could down a magnum of champagne without losing his poise or equilibrium. He was attracted by the ideas of his time, from the Fabian Socialism of Bernard Shaw to the moral relativism of Bertrand Russell and the welfare economics of John Maynard Keynes...
...still good for laughs. The triangle consists of Author Van Johnson, Wife Janet Leigh and Literary Agent Martha Hyer, who sells Van's novel to a publisher, a book club, a Broadway producer and a movie company ("Paramount wants it for Burton, O'Toole, Olivier, Loren and Fabian"). Not content with her 10%, she tries to collect the author...
Died. Louis Fabian Bachrach, 82, master photographer for 40 years (1915-55) as head of Bachrach, Inc., the nation's premier portrait firm (founded in 1868 by Bachrach's father, run today by his two sons, Bradford and Louis Fabian Jr.), a student of human nature who found that the great and rich alike wanted the camera to "fill in their inadequacies," did so with such success that he and his sons have photographed every President since Wilson; of a stroke; in Boston...
...week the 22 exhibitions ran the gamut of modernism, from a show of Arp and Henry Moore sculpture at the distinguished Felix Landau Gallery to paintings by Pop Artist Billy Al Bengston at the Ferus Gallery. Billy Al does canvases with titles like Rock, Troy, Tyrone, Sterling. One called Fabian consists of large master-sergeant stripes against a background of orange and blue-grey doughnut shapes. It is social comment, Billy Al explains: everyone wants to be topkick. At the Heritage Gallery, a lumpy figurative painting by Rod Briggs lets out wails every time a viewer's shadow falls...
...Green-Eyed Millionairess." They met at a Fabian Society gathering, and though Charlotte was well-bred and well-read, it was her wealth that seems to have piqued Shaw's imagination. G.B.S., who always took pains to keep each of his old "enchantresses" informed of every new conquest, was soon taunting Ellen Terry with his "green-eyed Irish millionairess." "I think I could prevail on her," he wrote the actress, "and then I shall have ever so many hundreds a month for nothing. Would you ever in your secret soul forgive me?" Though he was bombarding Charlotte with passionate...