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...thing," says Benny, "it would take a little digging to find a band like that today. To get Harry James you'd have to call him from Hollywood. Gene Krupa used to make our tops-$165 a week. Now he has his own band. Remember Gordon Griffin, our third trumpet man? . . . We used to throw him a bone once in a while; now he's probably making $600 a week. Another thing: in those days jazz was not a big business like it is today. You never really had a manager in those days. Today you have...
...people, the vast geometry of the pyramids and the Great Sphinx's weather-blunted face are all that loom above the mist surrounding Egyptian art. For those who cared to look deeper, U.S. bookstores last week were peddling a thin volume of brilliant photographs titled Egyptian Art (Golden Griffin; $8). Along with its pictures, the book boasted a running commentary by Etienne Drioton, a French priest and scholar who is also director of the Cairo Museum's Department of Egyptian Antiques...
...recall his timely appraisal of the Korean situation in our June 5 issue. Before he became head of our Tokyo bureau, Gibney had served four years in the U.S. Navy, where he learned Japanese and was aide and flag lieutenant to Admiral Robert M. Griffin in Japan...
...Pakistan. The Indian province decided to build an entirely new city for its capital. Such planned capitals are rare. Peter the Great built St. Petersburg on piles in uninhabited marshes; Major Pierre Charles l'Enfant designed Washington for the Potomac swamps, and a U.S. architect, Walter Burley Griffin, drew up the plans for Australia's Canberra, which replaced a sheep station in a wide, shallow river valley...
Other school: Allen F. Hetherington, Jr., Huntington Schools for Boys; John J. Griffin, Jr., St. John's Preparatory; Phillip G. Sullivan, St. John's Preparatory; Ralph D. Powell, Jr., Noble and Greenough School; Francis J. Paradise, Keith Academy; Robert A. Stillman, Taor Academy; John F. Wilson, Mount Hermon; and Richard J. Talbot, St. Mary's High School...