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Pappas, who has become chairman-general manager of Esso Pappas, is a Greek-American bearing gifts to his motherland. Born Antonios Papadopoulos, he was taken to Boston as a child, eventually shortened his name because "it was easier for my American friends." He and Brother John expanded their father's modest grocery and imported-foods business into a profitable range of activities that now include imported liquors, real estate and shipping. They have also financed a Greek light-bulb factory and building-products plant. On frequent trips back to supervise, Tom Pappas noted the improving Greek economy, began serious...
...conservatives, and a man of parts to the compilers of biographies. But no one ever thought of him as a TV critic -until last week. Aware that Newton Minow got a lot of acreage simply by calling TV a "vast wasteland," Goldwater rared back his onager at a Greek-American dinner in Chicago and let the rocks fly at U.S. television. "Have you looked at your TV set lately?" he asked the audience. "What wallowing in self-pity! What vast and contorted expressions of emotion over trifling problems! What meaningless violence and meaningless...
...auctioneer had anticipated, and one of the canvases was sold for the highest known price ever paid for a modern painting. The painting: Gauguin's Still Life with Apples. (1901), a platter of succulent, Cézannesque green apples on an opulent green tablecloth. It went to Greek-American Shipping Executive Basil Peter Goulandris for $297,000 (plus 16.7% in taxes). Mrs. Biddle had bought the Gauguin in 1953 at Manhattan's Wildenstein Gallery for $80.000. "So what?" shrugged one French woman, about the price and profit. "Apples are expensive...
With a cast that is almost perfect down to the last minor role, "Night Music" is a tribute to the abilities of the Group Theatre. In his characterizations, Odets is superb; in his final effect, jumbled and incoherent. As the wild and self-conscious Greek-American boy, Elia Kazan is one of the most fascinating personalities of the last few years. It is a part full of fight and bluster, and when the external shell comes off, insecurity, loneliness and an appealing love of humanity that cannot be hid. His barbaric naturalness wins the gentle Philadelphia girl...
...last two years a young Greek-American has been astounding Europe with his proficiency on the flute. People looking at his trim beard and heavy, horn-rimmed glasses can hardly believe that Lambros Demetrios Callimahos is only 26. People hearing him pipe harmonics and flying chromatic scales think he must be twice that age to have mastered such a clean technique. Yet young Callimahos never bothered with the instrument till he was 14, when somebody gave him a tin whistle. Callimahos went on to a flute, played it all through high school in Asbury Park, N. J. where...