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...Working four-week stretches in Hollywood, then zipping off to New York and Europe, he "converges" clients wherever he goes. Next week he leaves for a Swiss skiing colloquium with Irwin Shaw, Peter Viertel, Anatole Litvak, Darryl Zanuck and Henri-Georges Clouzot. He never considers himself on vacation. Once, meeting 20th Century-Fox's Buddy Adler by chance in Paris, Lazar sold him Cole Porter's Can-Can for $750,000. On another occasion, he was saving money by flying tourist class when, looking beyond the partition, he saw Spyros Skouras sitting up forward in Firstville. "I could...
...engines dead and a third one wheezing, an elderly Lockheed Constellation last month crashed near Richmond, Va., killing 74 Army recruits and three crew members. The plane was owned by Imperial Airlines, a nonsked company in Miami, operating under contract with the U.S. Army. Last week, after a four-week investigation by the Civil Aeronautics Board into the possible cause of the crash, it seemed a wonder that Imperial's Constellation had got off the ground in the first place. Items...
Welcomed home by Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Poet Laureate John Masefield's twelve-line ode, "On the Return of Our Gracious Sovereign from Africa,"* Queen Elizabeth II returned to England last week from her four-week, 7,000-mile visit to four West African countries. With her the Queen brought some six tons of luggage and gifts, including a baby crocodile, reportedly with divine powers, for Prince Andrew. Behind her she had left a residue of good feeling toward the Crown and Commonwealth-as well as her huband, Prince Philip, who was attending the Tanganyikan independence ceremonies. (Perhaps...
...podium. Instead, he prefers to stand among the strings, his head bowed, a faint smile on his face, indicating by an occasional gesture of his hand that the credit belongs to the men of his orchestra. The applause has thundered almost continuously for the Philharmonic during the four-week U.S.-Canadian tour that ends this week, and few who recall the Philharmonic's visit to the U.S. six years ago are deceived by Von Karajan's modesty: to him clearly belongs the credit for putting the Berlin Philharmonic once again among the world's finest symphony orchestras...
...computer, which measures the results of one team's performance against the others, then "feeds back" new market data from which the teams make decisions for the following quarter-and so on, for five make-believe years of business. It is a costly sport. Charge for a four-week A.M.A. course: $850 per player...