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Such society gossipists as Igor (Cholly Knickerbocker) Cassini of Hearst's New York Journal-American operate on the principle that "there is nothing more deadly boring than a group of people who have just social position and nothing else." In his syndicated column of elegant keyhole peeping and pub-crawling, Cassini is far from boring. He not only covers the fanciest parties and loudest brawls, but his columns also include such items as: "When the Jelke trial opens-the chi chi neighbors along 72nd Street will hear all about the $300-a-month apartment [call] girls operated there...
...estranged fourth wife, Five-and-Dime Heiress Barbara Mutton, was entitled, during a recent fling in Cuernavaca, to call herself Princess Troubetzkoy. Rubirosa's likely ploy: if Babs is still billing herself as a princess, then maybe her 1951 Cuernavacan divorce from her fourth husband, Lithuanian Prince Igor Troubetzkoy, was no good − and Rubirosa 's marriage to Babs would thus be legally null. In that happy event, Rubirosa could immediately head for the altar with his great and good friend...
...FALL OF A TITAN, by Igor Gouzenko. An indictment of the Soviet system in the form of a novel by the Russian code clerk who exposed his country's atomic espionage net in Canada and the U.S. An important and frequently exciting exposure of Communist ruthlessness and what it does to those it touches...
Operation Manhunt (MPTV Corp.; United Artists). Igor Gouzenko was trained by Soviet military intelligence to be persistent, and he learned his lesson well. In 1945 the former code clerk in Ottawa's Russian embassy exposed to the Canadian government a Red ring that was stealing atomic secrets. In 1948 his adventures gave Hollywood the excuse and the plot for a vivid anti-Soviet spy thriller, Iron Curtain. Last July he published a powerful novel, The Fall of a Titan, about Russian officialdom, and how one of its high-ups got cut down. Operation Manhunt, a sort of sequel...
Venice's International Festival of Contemporary Music, which used to play host to such startling modern operas as Igor Stravinsky's The Rake's Progress and Dmitry Shostakovich's The Lady Macbeth of Mzensk, last week unveiled a collaboration between two chilly and notably elegant talents: Britain's Composer Benjamin Britten and America's late, great Author Henry James. The work: Britten's opera version of The Turn of the Screw...