Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When I was a boy," the guest conductor told the orchestra, "there were four very good young violinists here in San Francisco. One was Isaac Stern, one was Ruggiero Ricci, one was Yehudi Menuhin, and the fourth was Joe Alioto. I know what happened to the first three-but what ever became of Joe Alioto?" Among other things, he grew up to be mayor of San Francisco. Now he was before the San Francisco Symphony, telling jokes on himself and preparing to lead the orchestra through the opening number of a benefit performance. The mayor, who still practices his violin...
Without Laughter. In the courtroom, Percy comes across at first as a fit figure for ridicule-a shambling hulk (6 ft. 4 in., 250 Ibs.) of a man with baggy pants. But his opponents know better than to laugh. Foreman combines a superbly skilled legal mind with a brilliant sense of showmanship. In one case, he defended a woman who had killed her husband, a cattleman, because he had flogged her with a whip. As he addressed the jury, Foreman kept picking up the long black whip from the counsel table and cracking it ferociously. By the time...
...likes to own up to the practice. To reveal the records of such surveillance would be an embarrassing admission of spying. More important, because of the court's decision, the Government may decide not to prosecute, for it would not want a foreign power to know what it had learned through listening devices...
...date, even though it had not been cast by that time. For the most part, like many astrologers, Righter does his best to couch everything?even the unpleasant?in positive terms. "If I find a strong indication, say, that someone is going to lose his job, I say: 'You know, nothing in life is certain. This is a period of change. Your chart shows that you have some interesting new beginnings, and if I were you I'd prepare for them.' " He also tries to discourage what Client Robert Cummings calls "astrological hypochondria." Says Righter: "If all they want...
...wife-to-be. She is Giovanna Carlevaro, an attractive woman of 38, whom he met at a friend's house last November. They will be married "soon," said Musante, but the exact time and place is secret. What his new occupation will be, Musante does not yet. know. "In case of need, I would not hesitate at manual labor...