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Rowing in the eight for Radcliffe were Ann Robinson (bow), Charlotte Crane (2), Debbie Harrington (3), Kathy Sullivan (4), Jenny Getsinger (5), Lillian Hunt (6), Alison Hill (7), Ginny Smith (Stroke) and Nancy Hadley...
...California State College, is prepared to prove that it's mild indeed compared to the mania which swept the country between 1892 and 1898. In those days the army made pedalers out of cavalrymen, police speed traps caught "scorchers," and Diamond Jim Brady paid $10,000 for Lillian Russell's wheel. It has mother-of-pearl handlebars, spokes encrusted with jewels and-scandalous!-a custom-fitted seat...
Another book about Igor Stravinsky? No, not just another book. Lillian Libman's A nd Music at the Close: Stravinsky's Last Years, published this week (Norton; $9.95), has already, sight unseen, caused the music world's most con brio feud of the decade. Engaging in a bit of pre-publication drumbeating last spring, Libman disclosed that her book would challenge the familiar portrait of Stravinsky in his later years-a portrait produced by his literary collaborations with his co-conductor, aide and surrogate son Robert Craft (TIME, June...
...Another former associate of the composer challenges the validity of the Craft portrait. She is Lillian Libman, 59, Stravinsky's personal manager and sometime member of his menage. In And Music at the Close: Stravinsky's Last Years, a memoir that will be published this fall by W.W. Norton, Libman contends that Stravinsky was actually more abstemious with words and less waspish and argumentative than the Craft collaborations suggest. Indeed, she maintains, many of the words are not Stravinsky's at all but Craft's. Libman calls into question Stravinsky's supposedly keen interest...
...known Charlie's wife Oona since they were both 14 (and who also once married a famous oldster, Conductor Leopold Stokowski), gave a dinner party for the Chaplins in her town house and invited 66 of the Manhattanites who matter. Among them were Theatricals (like perennial Film Star Lillian Gish), Actresses (Geraldine Fitzgerald and Kitty Carlisle), Politicals (Senator and Mrs. Jacob Javits), and Literary-Socials (Truman Capote and George Plimpton). Winsomely self-deprecating, perched on his chair rather than sitting in it, the guest of honor basked in so much high-powered appreciation-humming delightedly along with Showman Adolph...