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...terror of New Jersey's Teterboro Airport, aeronaughty TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey, who was shorn of his private pilot's ticket for six months last year after he peevishly buzzed Teterboro's control tower, taxied his DC-3 at the scene of the crime, this time clipped a ground approach light with his wing. Unaware that he had dented the wing and ripped a deicer, he nonchalantly took off for Nova Scotia. The tower called Godfrey, broke the news that he had just had a slight accident. Surprised as he could be, Pilot Godfrey returned...
Everybody was on hand-Count Basie and Louis Armstrong, Pee Wee Russell, Dave Brubeck, Woody Herman, Roy Eldridge, Gerry Mulligan, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and plenty of others as "far out" as mortal men can get. Tabulating receipts at week's end, Impresario George Wein grinned from ear to ear. Not only would the festival be continued next year, he predicted, but it might well spread to Europe...
...intellectuals are appalled at the "bourgeois barbarism" that relegates U.S. intellectuals to the status of "eggheads." After a shuddering visit to the U.S., Simone (The Second Sex) de Beauvoir, complained: "The U.S. is hard on intellectuals. Publishers, managers evaluate your brains with a critical and disgusted air, like an impresario asking a dancer to show her legs...
After dropping down to the Air Force University at Montgomery, Ala. to make a commencement speech, highhanded TV Impresario Arthur Godfrey made some less salutary remarks on a telecast. His target: Montgomery, the state's capital; it gets so hot there, said Godfrey, that folks would just curl up and die if they didn't have air conditioning. Its civic pride bruised, Montgomery's daily Advertiser promptly cracked back: "Before we comment on Arthur Godfrey's wicked attack . . . we want it clearly understood that we don't listen to the bum." Regretted the Advertiser...
Sure enough, it turned out that good Prince-Bishop Wenceslaus had been a patron of music. His favorites: one Vincenzo Righini (1756-1812) and one Josef Martin Kraus (1756-92), who once had a symphony conducted by Haydn. That was all Impresario Hammer needed to know. Now a baroque-music week is a permanent fixture in Bad Bertrich. This year's festival gets under way next month with music by Righini and Kraus, plus Mozart, Haydn and Schumann. It will be played in the castle's candlelit hall, dominated by portraits of the Prince-Bishop and his sister...