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Gian Carlo Menotti owes a large part of his fame to television and the fact that Amahl has replaced Tiny Tim as America's favorite Christmas cripple. Though Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors (1951), like Maria Golovin (1958), was written primarily for television, the composer carefully followed all the conventions of stage presentation, and both works have been sung in theaters. But Menotti has finally gone all the way. His latest opera, Labyrinth, commissioned like the others by NBC and shown for the first time this week, would be impossible on the stage...
...Walter Winchell covered Manhattan like it was something under a rock, then broke into the nonbook world as co author (with the late Jack Lait) of such penny dreadfuls as New York Confidential, Washington Confidential, Chicago Confidential, and U.S.A. Confidential, all of which earned him more libel suits than fame; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Eppa Rixey Jr., 71, self-effacing 266-game winner during 21 years of major-league pitching with the Philadelphia Phillies and the Cincinnati Reds, whose last-month nomination to the Hall of Fame moved him to remark: "I guess they're scraping at the bottom of the barrel"; of a heart attack; in Cincinnati...
Since Synanon House set itself up in Santa Monica four and a half years ago as a mutual self-help cure station for drug addicts, it has seen its fame spread across the country. And for good reason. Addicts given intensive treatment at special federal hospitals have a relapse rate as high as 90%; Synanon, which models itself on Alcoholics Anonymous and uses ex-addicts to give junkies the support and understanding they need to kick the habit and stay clean, has cut the relapse rate...
This heady information was contained in a letter to Lawrence Durrell, when, at 24 and yet unknown to fame, he was a lonely and industrious apprentice novelist on the island of Corfu. What made him keep opening the letter and reading it again and again in the rain was the fact that it was from that self-acknowledged genius Henry Miller, 21 years older and not yet world-famous but already a coterie colossus dangerously engaged in living his autobiography in Paris. Indeed, the younger man regarded Miller as so great that he was "furious that people haven...