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...Shop and Bernard Haggin, while high-pressuring gramophone owners into buying albums of similar music which they could have purchased all along. Encouraging musical inertia and lack of discrimination, the new group misses a chance to concentrate on new music, and winds up by mailing the dances from "Prince Igor" one month and "Annie Get Your Gun" the next...
Slender, kinky-haired Igor Loiewski-Cassini, who is a grandson of a Russian count, hit Manhattan last fall like a ton of marshmallows. He signed on as "Cholly Knickerbocker" of Hearst's New York Journal-American society page, and set his sights high. What he wanted, he said, was syndication-first national, then global. He put out a highly readable, often unbearable column full of cream-puff crises and chichi. Sometimes, to angle it down Hearst's alley, he sternly lectured his readers on why broiled squab and Valentina gowns were Worth Fighting...
Last week Hearst's King Features Syndicate bought a Cassini society column, but it was not Igor's. The author: pretty, pouty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, Igor's 26-year-old wife. The title: Washington Whirl, to run thrice weekly in 100-odd papers, as a hodgepodge of capital chitchat, politics and favorite embassy recipes...
Brunette Bootsie started out as a leg-woman for her husband's old column, These Charming People, in Mrs. Eleanor Medill Patterson's Washington Times-Herald. When Igor was drafted in 1943, "Cissie" Patterson let Bootsie step in as his wartime substitute. Washingtonians liked the substitute better than the original : her stuff was not deep, but it avoided the catty approach that once got Igor tarred & feathered (TIME, July 3, 1939). As the daughter of an old and horsy Virginia family, in whose house Igor took refuge after being tarred, Bootsie had a better entry into Capital society...
Columbia Workshop (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS). Composer Igor Stravinsky conducts his Ebony Concerto with Woody Herman as clarinet soloist...