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PLEASE-Ireland's Prime Minister Eamon de Valera was not "Manhattan-born" [TIME, June 25]. He was born in Brooklyn . . . birthplace of Ecuador's President Galo Plaza Lasso...
...vote of 74 to 72, stubborn, hard-fighting old Eamon de Valera once more became Ireland's Prime Minister. Manhattan-born De Valera, 68, had held that job for 16 years, had seen Ireland achieve full independence, before he was defeated at the polls three years...
...Manhattan-born Tom Scherman decided while still in short pants not to follow his father Harry into the book business (Book-of-the-Month Club). Instead, he went to Columbia and Juilliard School of Music. He foots the whole bill for his Little Orchestra Society. At first, partly because he hired high-rate soloists such as Isaac Stern, Claudio Arrau, Joseph Szigeti, and gave them a chance to play music "they can't play in Oshkosh," he found his society a little expensive. Now, Scherman reports, "it's coming closer and closer to breaking even...
Rumbling-voiced, 250-lb. Lee Hays, 35, started as a youngster in Arkansas, learned many of his favorites from country congregations when he was an itinerant preacher in his student days. Manhattan-born Pete Seeger, 31, left Harvard to thumb his way across country to see what he could pick up in the way of American folk songs. On the road he learned to play the oldfashioned, long-necked banjo, later worked as folk archivist in the Library of Congress. Guitarist Fred Hellerman, 24, and pretty, clear-voiced Ronnie Gilbert, 24, developed their taste for folk music while they were...
Since he moved to Los Angeles four years ago, Manhattan-born Artist Howard Warshaw, 30, has been fascinated by the crash and crush of its snarled traffic. For him, the city's traffic signals, with their brightly colored blinking eyes, have "the directness and brilliance of Indian pictorial sign language." One night, when he saw the bold white lines of intersection crosswalks framing a wrecked car and its injured driver, he decided that the "awful picture is the culmination of everything . . . the time when everything interlocks," went home to paint...