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Anxious to rid itself of "middleaged spread," the BBC hired Clock in the spring of 1959. His credentials were varied. London-born, Clock studied piano with Artur Schnabel in Berlin in the early '303, returned to London to write music criticism, and founded a summer school (which he still runs) for composers and performers at Dartington, in Devon. Working on the theory that he could include two new works in a four-work program without losing his audience, Clock started his new job by sprucing up not only the Prom concerts but also the repertories of the three...
There is enough reality to Chalk's pocketa-pocketa, however, to add up to considerable accomplishment. In the 31 years since he graduated from New York University Law School, London-born Roy Chalk has built up a tidy real estate and transportation empire. This week he launches a publishing chain. Last March Chalk paid $850,000 for an 80% interest in El Diario de Nueva York (circ. 68,000), the largest Spanish newspaper in a city that now has 650,000 Puerto Rican inhabitants. This week he takes over the city's only other Spanish daily, La Prensa...
...gaily corrupt New York City administration. He spent nine years as chief justice of New York City's Court of Special Sessions, retiring in 1960 and giving as his reason ill health induced by the "constant anxiety, irritation and strain" of the job. He was a suave, London-born lawman, with plenty of influential friends-among them New York's Democratic Representative Emanuel Celler. chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. It was Celler who pushed his appointment as a U.S. district judge for the Southern District of New York; Attorney General Robert Kennedy agreed, and sent...
...Were Here." The son of Portrait ist John Butler Yeats, London-born Jack Yeats was more Irish at heart than either his father or brother. "We did not come with Elizabeth," he said, "or with Cromwell, or with Dutch William. We were here." He was a courtly, gentle man who daily fed the pigeons outside his Dublin house and often cut out puppets for children. "He always had a new joke to tell," says Irish Artist Norah McGuiness, "and never made a commonplace remark. He lived in a different world, and I wish I could have entered...
Married. Jean Simmons, 31, hazel-eyed, London-born cinemactress (Sparta-cus); and Screenwriter-Director (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Richard Brooks, 48, ex-professional baseball player; after they first teamed together in Elmer Gantry; both for the second time; in Salinas, Calif...