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...their first herculean hit (Oklahoma!). Composer Richard Rodgers, 58, abandoning memorable music for heartfelt words in the New York Times Magazine, saluted his friend and partner, Librettist Oscar Hammerstein II, on the eve of Hammerstein's 68th birthday this week. Their mutual affection is largely unspoken: "Oscar is fond of me-very fond, I think-as a man, and yet he has never even hinted vaguely at this. On the other hand, he's gone before the entire country on television and told everybody what a great person I was.'' Still, prying interviewers often ask what...
...Kingston Trio's Sold Out was anything but. With fond backward glances at Billboard's bestseller chart, where Sold Out last week led all the rest, Capitol Records was keeping all music shops well supplied with the hottest album cut so far by the hottest group in U.S. popular music...
...recoil from "any program that will seriously annoy the Church of England, the Royal Family, the three services, the British Medical Association or the Law Society." It enjoyed a monopoly in British radio broadcasting for 33 years, during which its Oxford-accented air of uplift earned the BBC the fond, but not too fond, nickname "Auntie." Five years ago, along came commercial TV. The Tory government created the privately owned Independent Television Authority to give Auntie competition. With a zest for controversy and no qualms about serving up popular fare (much of it made in America), ITV quickly grabbed...
...Dreaming? The earnest delegates had come to discuss solidarity among the emerging states of Africa. But from the very first session in Addis Ababa's modern, glass-roofed Parliament Hall, the angry squabbling showed that the fond dream of unity was still a myth. Nigeria's Maitama Sule attacked Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah, who dreams of himself as the leader of a united Africa. "If anyone makes the mistake of feeling he is a messiah who had a mission to lead Africa," cried Sule, "the whole purpose of Pan-Africanism will be defeated. Hitler thought...
...Mitford on the far right, Pamela, was so fond of horses she married a sometime jockey...