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...DIED. Leonid Hambro, 86, brilliant concert pianist with a superhuman memory; in New York City. He dazzled with a 1952 performance at New York City's Town Hall, for which he had to learn complex works in less than a day. But the Julliard alum found broadest appeal as the straight man to funnyman-pianist Victor Borge, with whom he performed for 10 years, starting...
Special guests feuded in a debate to determine the Smartest Person in the World, with participants including Jamil Mahuad, former president of Ecuador and Leonid Hambro, former principal pianist of the New York Philharmonic...
...hits include Stop! in the Name of Love and Baby I Need Your Loving. To date, Pullman's deals are the only ones of their kind, though Nomura Capital Entertainment recently arranged a $15 million loan for Rod Stewart that was secured by the star's future royalties. SPP Hambro is close to cutting a similar deal for slugger Frank Thomas, who has a long-term contract with the Chicago White Sox. Six months ago, former record executive Charles Koppelman formed CAK Universal Credit in partnership with Prudential Securities, and he says he'll close $100 million in entertainer loans...
...cleaner-but no toaster. Nonessentials included a 2-ft.-long solid gold dhow from Bahrain and a Steuben glass bowl from President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan. In the campy department are matching terry bathrobes with Charles and Diana stitched on their backs prizefighter style, a gift from Bridesmaid Clementine Hambro...
...seismographs around the world measured the impact of the closely spaced explosions, the U.N.'s anniversary session was shaping up, like the U.S. underground test, as a strictly low-yield affair. On the first day, when General Assembly President Edvard Hambro of Norway rose to declare that "the world will be listening to what we say and watching what we do," he stared out over vast expanses of empty seats and delegates of far less stature than had been anticipated...