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Where are they now-the Russian intellectuals who sat at Tolstoy's feet (he encased them in square-toed boots), talked the hours away with Chekhov and listened to first-hand yarns about Dostoevsky and Gogol...
...much with it. Like Fitzgerald and Hemingway, most U.S. writers have been too middle class. Ethan Ayer, 31, the Brooks School, Trinity College, and (says his dust jacket) of "a well-known riding and hunting family," should presumably be able to write about wealth with the fullness of first-hand knowledge. In The Enclosure, a first novel, he has tried hard, but he has not quite turned the trick...
...Manhattan last week, a U.S. audience found first-hand that the news about France's best male dancer was not exaggerated. For his first guest appearance with Ballet Theater, mop-haired little (5 ft. 5 in.) Dancer Babilée, 27, chose the ballet which first brought him fame, Le Jeune Homme. His role: that of a young artist who is abandoned by his sweetheart. In the violent, Apache-like dances that the ballet calls for, he revolved around his taunting sweetheart (beautifully danced by pert Nathalie Philippart, his wife) with the intensity of an angry bird. His tremendous...
...cockpit of a fast plane is only one of the many odd spots where Leonard goes to do his job-giving TIME-readers first-hand accounts of scientific advances, their business and military uses. Last fall, for instance, he had slightly more roomy quarters at Cambridge and Oxford Universities for a couple of weeks, while he studied the new theory of the universe's origin, worked out by English cosmologists ("According to Hoyle," TIME...
...onetime school superintendent himself (in Beaverton, Mich.), Dean MacConnell thought he knew how to help his callers out. His scheme: a special School Plant Planning Department at Stanford which would not only aid small communities but would also give Stanford graduate students some first-hand experience in practical administration...