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...Died. Edgar Jonas Kaufmann, 69, president (since 1924) of Kaufmann's Department Store in Pittsburgh (which was merged with the May Department Stores Co. in 1946), philanthropist, civic leader, fancier of modern homes (the most famous of his houses: Falling Water, the lavish $90,000 Frank Lloyd Wright mountain retreat located at Bear Run, Pa., which features concrete slabs cantilevered over a waterfall); of a heart condition; in Palm Springs, Calif...
Sales of the standard loomed Axminster wool rugs have declined more than 20% in the last decade, and only the fancier wool grades are gaining in popularity...
...opening sentence in your Nov. 8 goony bird story, which described this erratic but Pacific aviator as "an odd but charming creature which serves no useful purpose at all," was somewhat disturbing. Although I do not consider myself a bird fancier, the statement sets off a few serious overtones. What is the useful purpose of a starling, a hedgehog, or indeed, TIME'S Science writer...
Married. John Wayne, 46, leathery cinemactor (The High and the Mighty, Hondo) and fancier of Latin-type ladies ("Some men collect stamps; I go for Latin Americans"); and bosomy, Peruvian-born Pilar Palette, 26; he for the third time, she for the second; in Hawaii...
...Desmond habitually venture into keys that are entirely foreign to the one they are supposed to be playing in, for they are firm believers in what musicians call polytonality. Some tunes, like On the Alamo and Let's Fall in Love, stimulate the Brubeck crew to new and fancier flights, month after month, then drop out of the repertoire when they begin to bore the men. The quartet may swing into These Foolish Things, which seems to remind them of lots of other things (including Smoke Gets in Your Eyes, Lazy River), or into Fare Thee Well, Annabelle, which...