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...climbs into a huge piano with a wrathful countess; in another he flies over Germany on a bombing mission. His crew: a bevy of ex-mistresses. Liszt ends as he begins, Candide with piano, an innocent exploited by everyone he encounters, especially Wagner (who became his son-in-law). Lest the audience wonder about the personality of Wagner, the film transforms him into Dracula, literally sucking the blood of his first patron, then into Dr. Frankenstein, sole creator of a monster named Hitler...
...Viking Press. Jackie, who now collects $250,000 each year from the estate of her late husband, Aristotle Onassis, will concentrate on "initiating books, finding ideas and writers," according to Viking President Thomas Guinzburg, 49, a longtime Jackie friend who declined to discuss his new employee's salary. Lest anyone think that working will interfere with her evenings, Jackie promptly celebrated her job by catching Singer Frank Sinatra's act at Manhattan's Uris Theater and then adjourning to the "21" Club on the arm of Ol' Blue Eyes himself...
...words he is "bigger than the Kentucky Derby, the World Series and the Indianapolis 500." Lest these seem too parochial, he is not too shy to suggest he even possesses the power to part oceans. If he is not omnipotent, Ali is at least inexhaustible. Within hours of his arrival he waltzed through a workout and presided over a press conference. "What is Frazier mad at me for?" he asked. "I have made him the second most famous athlete...
...this election at least, the Union Leader is playing a relatively minor role, although the paper may have given Durkin enough of a scare to cause him to modify his views--he stated his opposotion to gun control laws last week, lest he come down on the wrong side of one of William Loeb's favorite issues...
...lifelong reader of the Los Angeles Times was outraged. "You are the Paul Revere of the oncoming avalanche of libertine behavior," he wrote in a letter to the editor canceling his subscription. Lest anyone fail to recognize the disgruntled reader's name, the Times responded last week by identifying him in a cartoon lampooning his decision. It was hardly necessary, for everyone knows that Edward Michael Davis, 58, is the city's chief of police. Tilting with the Times-and anyone else who runs up against his puritan ethics-is standard operating procedure for Davis. To him advocates...