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...ATLAS: a sort of highbrow Reader's Digest with reprints, excerpts and translations from the foreign press, launched last March by Eleanor Davidson Worley, stepdaughter of the late publisher of Illinois and California newspapers, Ira C. Copley, with ABC Newsman Quincy Howe as co-editor...
...Naxos), Shaw saved some of his sharpest shafts for vocalists. Of the famed Italian Tenor Enrico Tamberlik, appearing in Rossini's Otello, he wrote: "He sings in a doubtful falsetto and his movements are unmeaning, and frequently absurd. For the C sharp in the celebrated duet L'ira d'avverso fato, he substituted a strange description of shriek at about that pitch. The audience, ever appreciative of vocal curiosities, eagerly redemanded...
...most fashionable hair stylist in France, and possibly in the whole world, first drew international attention at the 1955 wedding of Princess Ira von Fürstenberg and Prince Alfonso Hohenlohe-Langenburg in Venice. Leaning over to give the princess' hairdo a final fluff, he fell into the Grand Canal. But that header was nothing to the splash created by Alexandre of Paris last week when Jackie Kennedy arrived in France. With his careful fingers and soaring imagination, Alexandre transformed the girlish casualness of Jackie's usual hairdo into a piece of elaborate and queenly sculpture...
...sent six, Russia two, Nigeria one. Among the arrivals were many who had turned journalist just for the occasion: U.S. Novelist Irwin (The Young Lions) Shaw, whose "incisive understanding of the Nazi mentality" was under contract to Hearst; Indian Poet Dom Moraes, representing Encounter, a British magazine; U.S. Banker Ira Hirschmann for Look...
Enter a Goddess. Soon afterward, at a student performance, Soprano Price was heard by Producer Robert Breen, who was then signing a cast for a revival of Porgy and Bess. At Breen's request, Leontyne sang for Ira Gershwin/ Loves You, Porgy and Slimmer time. Before the audition, she stood despairingly with a friend on a Broadway street corner. "Nothing's going to happen," she said. "Nothing can happen." By nightfall she had the female lead...