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...Peppermint Lounge and its Twist might well have remained just another flesh spa for the midtown beatnik crowd had it not been for the sharp eye of New York Journal-American Society Editor "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini), who somehow spotted a few members of the smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose...
Died. Countess Marguerite Cassini, 79, mother of Dress Designer Oleg Cassini and New York Society Columnist Igor ("Chol-ly Knickerbocker") Cassini, a spirited Russian matriarch who was the belle of Washington during the McKinley and Teddy Roosevelt Administrations, when her father was Czarist Ambassador to the U.S.; of a heart attack; in New York...
...thing, stereo in all its forms is still more expensive than comparable monaural sound. For another, critics complain that stereo speaks with forked tongue. Despite claims that it delivers concert-hall realism, it is really mechanical realism. "We do not hear live performances 'stereophonically,'" says Composer Igor Stravinsky. "Whereas the angle formed by a live orchestra and our two ears is about six inches, the angle at which the stereo microphone hears the same orchestra for us is sometimes as great as 60 ft. Therefore stereo, instead of giving us 'the best seat in the house...
When Russian Cipher Clerk Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet embassy in Ottawa in 1945 with documents exposing a Soviet spy ring, he had considerable trouble finding anyone in Ottawa to defect to. He called fruitlessly at the Justice Minister's office, vainly told his story to the Ottawa Journal, was finally taken in tow by the Ottawa police only after embassy goons broke into his apartment. Last week, in a sadly wiser world, Dr. Mikhail Antonovich Klotchko, 59, a leading Soviet inorganic chemist, in Canada to attend the 18th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Chemistry...
...post-1900) composers come off remarkably well in the B.M.I. survey; they wrote almost two-thirds of the works played by U.S. orchestras last season. Serge Prokofiev was the most-played contemporary, and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite was the most-played contemporary composition. But that still left Serge, Igor and Leroy Anderson several long leagues behind the perennial alltime favorite: Ludwig van Beethoven. Music lovers could take some comfort from the fact that last season Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto was played just 40.3 times as often as Anderson's Plink Plank Plunk...