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...plump, underdone dumpling in granny spectacles who is so appealing that he has been rendered by several artists as a pop statue. Even French Artist Martial Raysse entered a portrait of the U.S. commissioner at the Biennale. Geldzahler chose a diverse group of hard-edge and stained-canvas abstractionists-Helen Frankenthaler, Jules Olitski, and Ellsworth Kelly-and included, perhaps for poignancy, Roy Lichtenstein's cartoons. He wound up his brief introduction to the U.S. catalogue with the crashing conclusion that "their experiments are successful. They paint beautiful pictures." When all Americans lost, Geldzahler petulantly handed out a statement denouncing...
...spotty in this hit-show album. Gwen Verdon's songs sound strangely tuneless, and the show's greatest asset, Bob Fosse's choreography, is lost completely. But some of the second-lead and chorus numbers are sprightly, particularly the memorable Baby Dream Your Dream, sung by Helen Gallagher and Thelma Oliver...
TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE (Ala.) Helen Hayes, L.H.D., actress...
When her father died in 1951, Helen Vlachos took over Kathimerini. Her employees, who regarded her as still a child, resisted innovations. So in 1961 she started Messimvrini, a paper in which she could "have her own way. She had the temerity to take the news off the last page, where it is customarily placed in Greek journalism, and spread it throughout the paper. She also brightened makeup and introduced Western-style leads. "All my staff were sure they'd be ruined," she recalls, "that my poor mother would be ruined, that their mothers would be ruined." But "Greeks...
Pink Pages. Working a man-killing schedule, Helen Vlachos has enlisted her second husband, Constantin Loundras, as business director of her enterprises. She lends her services to many worthy causes, such as the Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. But she scrupulously avoids cocktail parties and chooses her own guest lists carefully; in 1961, Jackie Kennedy was a visitor at her home on the island of Mykonos. "I don't like the abandoned female intellectual type," she says...