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...studios in Roxbury, Conn., and Saché, France, Calder builds up his balanced mobiles by trial and tumble. Says he: "It's like making a patchwork quilt. You can't predict." A mobile can be tiny as a hummingbird; others are so outsize that airports find them favorite lobby decor. One stabile, his Teodelapio in Spoleto, Italy, is the largest metal sculpture in modern times; it is 59 ft. high, weighs 30 tons, and trucks can pass underneath it. "If it's impeccable," he says, "it can be made into any scale...
...Hummingbird's Flight. Rubinstein's marriage in 1932 gave him a new sense of dedication. "I went to work," he says. "I learned to work on the piano for the piano's sake." When he returned to the U.S. for what he calls his "third debut" in 1937, he came as a giant who had transformed his joie de vivre into the strongest alloy of his music...
Having long since reached this happy entente with himself, Rubinstein travels and tastes the world like a hummingbird, charming friends in eight languages, pausing at his Manhattan and Paris houses barely long enough to savor his paintings and first editions. "That civilized man," as his friend Thomas Mann once called him, plays at least 100 concerts every year. Before the 1964 summer music festivals begin, he will have performed in Italy, London, Paris, Switzerland, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, Bangkok, Manila and Hawaii...
...daily, L'Equipe (circ. 300,000), decided to give its monthly magazine Sport & Vie a new name-Vive les Vacances!-and itself a new partner: Hachette. And last week Hachette added two new names to its list of magazines: Caroline, an illustrated weekly for young girls, and Colibri (Hummingbird), a puzzle, game and picture book for children...
Stand Still Like the Hummingbird is a collection of essays written over the last 30 years, dealing with topics 1 and 2 and designed to demonstrate that Miller is really a serious thinker. But it may well ruin Miller's profitably bad reputation in the U.S. (Tropic of Cancer, free from federal restraint since 1961, is selling hugely, thanks in part to the police chiefs in some 60 communities, who hound it with a righteousness usually reserved for bookmakers who do not pay their protection money.) A random sampling produces: "Fresh from Europe, the American scene held about...