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...four children, was born in Paris where the family now makes its comfortable home. There, after World War II, Caterina began to exploit her pretty voice, learned the American jazz style from recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ethel Waters and Billie Holiday. By 1952, Caterina had married a German juggler named Eric van Aro, now lives in West Germany as a popular recording artist and movie actress. Her singing style has settled into a kind of modified Moorish that can develop into a frightening, savage howl or sink into a sweet whisper. Last week she occasionally accompanied herself expertly...
Though Financial Juggler Fox, 49, had injected new life into the Post, circulation and advertising dropped (TIME, July 9). Fox himself still owed $1,000,000 of the $3,200,000 he agreed to pay for the paper. Last week, after Fox turned down
Eccentric, self-made Financial Juggler John Fox, 49, snapped up the paper four years ago, when it seemed that its fortunes could go no lower. An enthusiastic cub as publisher and columnist ("Washington Waters"), Fox shook up the paper into a livelier daily. But by last week. Post circulation had dropped from 306,000 to 267,000 and advertising had tumbled with it. Of the "bargain price" of a reported $3,300,000 that Fox paid for the paper, he still owes about...
...American Exchange has been Bellanca Corp., onetime planemaker. From a low of 4⅜ in 1954 it soared to a peak of 30½ before it eased off to 20 a few weeks ago. Much of the rise came after Sydney Albert, 49, of Akron, a promoter and juggler of corporations, got control of Bellanca 16 months ago. By outright purchase or trades for Bellanca stock, he gathered in dozens of small companies, paid out enough stock dividends to keep Bellanca stock going up and its holders happy. Few seemed worried that Bellanca lost $284,464 last year-until last...
...Rudyard Kipling and his British Empire, but there are those less happy about it than, say, Jawaharlal Nehru and the editors of the Nation. Rudyard Kipling was a lowbrow genius, the classic case of a jingo word juggler whose skill brought out the heaviest sneers in the faces of more civilized but not necessarily more talented...