Word: gunther
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This year, as usual, a handful of first novels arrived with the built-in interest that accompanies works by writers well established in other genres: Playwright William Inge's Good Luck, Miss Wyckoff, the late John Gunther's Indian Sign, Poet James Dickey's Deliverance (TIME, April 20). A few more deal with a subject successfully chosen to titillate advance publicity. Felice Gordon, for instance, in The Pleasure Principle looks into the bed and bored accommodations of a beautiful and renowned American widow now wed to a Greek shipping magnate. Attractive Lois Gould, widow...
Died. John Gunther, 68, journalist, author and world traveler whose Inside books have sold a phenomenal 3,500,000 copies over the past 30 years; in Manhattan. Blessed with a gregarious charm and intense curiosity, Gunther first won notice in the 1930s as European correspondent for the Chicago Daily News, filing reports of Germany's relentless march to war that ranked with those of Vincent Sheean and William Shirer. In 1936 Gunther produced the first of his fast-paced, infinitely detailed books, Inside Europe. ("I wrote, among other things, that the Führer was nil sexually...
...Boston Opera Company has achieved some tremendous successes. Its performance of Luigi Nono's Intoleranza several seasons ago was a major cultural event, and a source of controversy for many months. This week it will give the world premiere of Gunther Schuller's new opera. The Fisherman and His Wife . But now that the Back Bay Theatre has been torn down, the Company has to search hard to find a place to perform. This year's production of Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment had to be held in a hall at Tufts University in Medford. This effectively closed...
...cannon almost simultaneously. In the South, the Red company's program includes Sweden's "Unbelievable Lindstroms," who ride the high wire, all three of them balancing from a single unicycle; Bulgaria's Silagis, generally acknowledged as the world's most dazzling teeterboard act; and Gunther Gebel-Williams, a wild-animal tamer so impressive that Irvin Feld spent $2,000,000 to buy out an entire circus (belonging to Gunther's then mother-in-law) just to land...
...Gunther Schwartz, field manager of the camera network, found it lying on a dirt road six days later...