Word: herberts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because it's worth money." The director was Miss Yoko Ono, 34, a Tokyo-born artist-composer and currently an entrepreneur of happenings in London. The premiere was a benefit for Britain's Institute of Contemporary Arts, a prestigious public patron headed by eminent Art Philosopher Sir Herbert Read. But the point of it all was lost on most Londoners. Sales of the opening-night tickets ($4.20 top) were so slow that many had to be given away. The most appreciative audience response came ten minutes (and 40 rumps) along, when a spectator leaped onstage and stroked...
...cast of characters begins in 1923 with Charlie Chaplin and Warren G. Harding, and marches on in these four issues through years in which the figures on center stage range from Herbert Hoover to Booth Tarkington to Clara Bow, from Joe Louis to Adolf Hitler to Virginia Woolf, from Douglas MacArthur to Joe McCarthy to George Orwell. Each issue becomes a history of its year, not only tracing the overriding central themes - the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War - but also providing vignettes that help bring people alive...
...toothbrushes and gum stimulators properly, dental diseases could be sharply reduced. But as Tufts University's Dr. Irving Glickman told the Fourth Annual Workshop on Preventive Dentistry in Washington last week: "The public is apathetic, but our apathy makes the public's look small." Adds Harvard Orthodontist Herbert Wells: "Except for the introduction of high-speed drills, nothing much has happened to dental technology since...
Choreographer Herbert Ross yelled "Go, go!" and off she went-about 30 yds. along Manhattan's Pier 36, lurching like a sozzled sailor under the encumbrance of an ankle-length wool dress, high heels, a suitcase and makeup kit. It was one more rollicking day in the life of Barbra Streisand, movie star, and at that point the 25-year-old singer had staggered for an hour through the same one-minute scene in Funny Girl without getting it right. "My back hurts; my feet hurt!" yelled Streisand from her perch on a tugboat. "Now, now," consoled Producer...
Adolph Lewisohn spent $300 a month just for shaves and took up tap dancing at 80. Before giving his famous dinner parties, Carl Loeb held dress rehearsals on the preceding evening-with real food, real wine and substitute, or second-string, guests. On entering Williams College in 1895, Herbert Lehman, who later became New York Governor and U.S. Senator, took along his private car and chauffeur. Therese, daughter of Fanny and Solomon Loeb, could not button her dress at 18: servants had always done...