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...shouts of dobro pozhalovat (welcome ) from crowds of flower-bearing Russians, Composer Igor Stravinsky, 80, arrived at Moscow's Sheremetyevo Airport and set foot on his native soil for the first time in 52 years. For the frail, cane-carrying composer, whose symphonic ballets were branded "corrupt and bourgeois" during Stalin's day, it was an emotional homecoming. "I left Czarist Russia and have returned to the Soviet Union, which I greet," said Stravinsky in Russian. "It is a great joy." After a tender meeting with a niece he had known only through an exchange of letters, Stravinsky...
Shostakovich said that he was an admirer of the earlier works of that old Russian revolutionary Igor Stravinsky, who will visit Moscow this month: "I like his Petrouchka, Rite of Spring, the symphonies, and all the ballets except the last. His latest works do not seem to belong to him." As for his own works in progress, to which Shostakovich would they belong? The composer gave a hint when he announced that he is about to begin his 14th Symphony (the 13th is all but complete). It will be dedicated to Soviet achievements in space...
...mother. Refusing to be intimidated by the Old Guard's instinctive distrust of a some time actress, Mrs. Pickman shook up Boston society by giving parties that stirred together Brahmins with Broadway, jazz musicians with longhairs such as Conductor Serge Koussevitzky of the Boston Symphony and Composer Igor Stravinsky. It would have been surprising if a pretty and independent girl like Ceezee had not set her sights beyond Back...
Society P.R. people maintain a symbiotic relationship with another type of pro that has burgeoned during the postwar years-the Society gossip columnist. In Manhattan there is hardly any real gossip in the daily flow of words from golf-playing Igor ("Cholly Knickerbocker") Cassini, in the Journal American, or good-natured Joseph X. Dever in the World-Telegram, or bland Nancy Randolph in the Daily News, or even the entertainingly abrasive "Suzy" (Aileen Mehle) in the Mirror. The fascinating intelligence that Mercedes de Footwork had lunch at the Purple Tulip is good for a line any time...
This, however, was not the opinion of Igor ("Ghighi") Cassini, who as the Hearst chain's "Cholly Knickerbocker" plays chief tale-teller to the jet set, and used to namedrop the Gilberts in his column with insistent frequency. "Ghighi didn't lose a potful," said Gilbert last week. "Well, maybe he did-for him. It was about $30,000." Potful or not, Cassini's losses were big enough to have erased all his happy memories of the days when he enjoyed the expensive hospitality of the Gilberts' Riviera villa. Snapped Ghighi last week: "Nobody expected what...