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Begun simply as a campaign committee for Helms' first Senate race in 1972, the club went big time when it enlisted right-wing Direct-Mail Maestro Richard Viguerie to pay off the Helms campaign debt. With Viguerie's assistance, the club has built a mailing list of some 300,000 names, all proven givers to reactionary causes. Viguerie, hi fact, still controls two-thirds of the list and receives rental payments from the club every tune those names are used for causes other than Jesse Helms' reelection...
Maybe it was his role in the 1947 film The Secret Life of Walter Mitty that first set his mind to wondering. Danny Kaye was always an armchair maestro, but when he was invited to guest-conduct for the Philadelphia Orchestra in 1954, the idle dream and the classical passion harmonized nicely. Kaye, 68, has since trotted out his tux for guest appearances with symphony orchestras from San Francisco to Stockholm. For PBS's Sept. 23 Live from Lincoln Center performance of the New York Philharmonic, the baton will be passed by Musical Director Zubin Mehta, 45. Kaye does...
...maestro's mastery, a virtuoso's debut, afresh look at genius...
From his debut in the 1930s, with The Dark Frontier, Ambler set the course for the likes of John le Carre" and Robert Ludlum, who have yet to show that they can match the maestro for consistency and endurance. In The Care of Time, as in Ambler's 17 other novels, it is finally not so much the plot that grips the attention, superbly handled though it is, but the characters, all of them human and vulnerable: the flawed journalist, the fearful broker, his not quite ice-cool daughter, the sick sheik, even the attendant thugs, brass hats, cops...
Thus the "irreverent memoir" winds up telling little about Fiedler. It reveals more about Dickson, as an assistant's grateful tribute to the experience of working with his maestro. Dickson's compendium of reminiscences and moments, a handful of which do seem interesting enough to be memorable, can, given sufficient effort and imagination from the reader, furnish the tools to create the picture of what it was like to know Fiedler and the Pops--but the image remains blurred and ineffective for those without the urge to do-it-yourself...