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...complained about the food, and Sacheen Littlefeather was not there. On top of everything, there was Old Thunder Cloud himself, Marlon Brando, chiding the socialite nation for deserting its red brother. This uncomfortable powwow took place last week on a posh Manhattan reservation where Brando was chairman of a gala starring Guest of Honor Ethel Kennedy and Entertainers Harry Belafonte, Arlo Guthrie and Buffy Sainte-Marie to raise money for the impoverished U.S. Indians. Although some 300 guests paid up to $125 a ticket, the host could not even light a peace pipe right. Wearing a navy velvet jacket...
After four encores it was home to his town house on Manhattan's Upper East Side, where he gave a champagne party for a group of old friends and colleagues. Gala evenings are the exception these days for Horowitz. He has not had a drink in more than 20 years ("I don't need it; I am vivacious all the time"). He and his wife Wanda, the youngest child of the late Arturo Toscanini, much prefer a game of canasta with other couples, listening to records (Horowitz likes Wagner), or an occasional trip to the movies. The sound...
What Carnegie did was go electronic. Last week at a gala recital presented by Concert Organist Virgil Fox, the hall showed off its newest feature-a behemoth that can growl, sing, tinkle, purr and blast in a way unmatched by any other organ. A one-of-a-kind creation built by the Rodgers Organ Co. of Hillsboro, Ore., the new instrument is the most up-to-date and expensive electronic organ in the world. Carrying a price tag of $200,000, it took 23 months to design, construct and install. The finished product fairly bulges with audio-oscillators, sine-wave...
...second Sunday of August was to have been a day of celebration. On that day the couple had planned to take their three-month-old son Nathaniel to Immaculate Conception Church in Marlboro, Mass., for his baptism as a Roman Catholic. Guests were beginning to gather for a gala baptismal party. Then the phone rang: a call from Father John J. Roussin, assistant pastor of the church. Was she the same Carol Morreale who had been quoted in a Marlboro newspaper as supporting the establishment of an abortion-information clinic in the city? She was. In that case, warned...
...does Princess Grace think she is, anyway? Last week in St.-Tropez, Sammy Davis Jr. counted up the snubs he had received in her domain. When he graciously agreed to headline the opening gala of Monte Carlo's posh new Sporting Club, Sammy accepted $30,000 in expenses, plus a specially hired eight-berth yacht. Still, the way he saw it, "I was giving a free performance." Then there was the matter of his arrival. "There was no one to meet me at the airport," he groused, ignoring the Air France director, the pretty girls bearing flowers...