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Editor Haydn has worked with such authors as Jerome (The Enemy Camp) Weidman and Ayn (The Fountainhead) Rand, discovered or brought along such young novelists as William (Lie Down in Darkness) Styron and H. L. (Paris Underground) Humes. Says another of his authors, Truman Capote: "He is one of these very fatherly types. He is aggressively normal-you can see the blink behind the eye even though the eye is open. He is very much the commuter, and really the perfect editor-for people who need an editor...
UNDER De Gaulle's new constitution, the President, who under the Fourth Republic was largely a figurehead, becomes in the Fifth the fountainhead of power...
What Greece was to classic Rome as a fountainhead of art and craftsmanship, Italy for more than 500 years has been to Western Europe. Temporarily cut off by Mussolini's Fascist regime, Italian painters, sculptors and architects have rebounded in the postwar years to make Rome a serious rival of Paris as Europe's art capital. At year's end in Milan and Manhattan, two of Italy's leading painters showed that in painting, as in music, a bel canto lyricism is still a trademark of Italian...
...intent on proving themselves more responsible than Sukarno. General Nasution issued a flat "hands-off" order to Red-led SOBSI workers who wanted to seize the vast Royal Dutch Shell Co. holdings in Surabaya and Balikpapan. And at week's end Premier Djuanda announced that the fountainhead of the anti-Dutch campaign, Sukarno's Action Committee to Liberate West Irian (West New Guinea), had been dissolved, its functions taken over by the National Council...
Though customarily the fountainhead of the sound and the fury, old (88) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright found himself on the receiving end of a scorcher from Leon Chatelain, president of the American Institute of Architects. Just returned from a globe-girdling trip, Architect Chatelain candidly assessed Tokyo's famed earthquake-proof Imperial Hotel, designed by Wright, and finished in 1922. The verdict: "One of the most horrible buildings I've ever been in. It is dark and dismal and looks grotesque...