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TOGETHER with her husband, Henri Lew-Landowska, who hyphenated his name and identity to hers, and was a folklorist, an amateur musician, "an excellent cook" and her personal court jester, Landowska began collecting manuscripts and examining old harpsichords in all the great museums of Europe. She brought the results of her researches to the Pleyel firm of Paris. In line with her suggestions, they built an instrument, "capable of greater brilliance and more tonal variety -the first modern instrument to give full justice to the 16-foot register, that essential set of strings for a deep resounding bass...
...After World War II (he was a military government major with the Third Army in Italy and France), he almost decided to quit politics and devote his full time to the Shary interests. But his colleagues persuaded him to run for lieutenant governor. On July 11, 1949, Governor Beauford Jester died and Allan Shivers became the 36th governor of Texas...
...Court Jester. Over the clack of the car wheels, Hassouna Pasha continued his story. The intermediary was Kareem Tabet Pasha, a sort of amateur Rasputin who has been floating around Cairo for years. Tabet Pasha, King Farouk's press counselor until 1951, actually functioned more as court jester, five-percenter, and fellow nightclubber. Investigations into the Palestine arms scandal -in which defective arms were purchased and supplied to Egyptian troops fighting the Israelis-had repeatedly turned up his name. About nine months ago, Farouk dismissed Tabet, who scurried off to Switzerland. He had returned recently to Egypt...
...visiting friend last week, the President gave a more down-to-earth reason for his retirement, quoting a favorite expression of his military jester, Major General Harry Vaughan: "If you don't like the heat, get out of the kitchen. Well, that's what I'm doing...
Lampy's Ibis has finally come home to roost, and after much consultation with the Jester, the Blot, and the Narthex, has come out with his annual list of the year's ten worst motion pictures...