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Capraro is a Manhattan-born designer who went into business last July after eight years as an assistant to Oscar de la Renta, and at 31 he is still relatively little known in the fashion industry. He was in his Manhattan office in January sketching some shorts and sun dresses for his summer collection when the phone rang: the White House. Betty Ford had noticed some of his designs in the Washington Star-News and wanted him to fly down to the capital to discuss his making clothes...
...Performing Arts Foundation in Kansas City, shaped his companies to perform a repertory of unusual, rarely done works and to showcase fresh imported talent. Outrunning the Met, the quick impresario arranged the U.S. debuts of Joan Sutherland, Montserrat Caballé, Jon Vickers and Teresa Berganza, and in 1954 brought Manhattan-born Maria Callas back to America. Four years later, in Dallas, she presented him with the definitive Medea...
...Manhattan-born son of a Viennese accordionist, Hamlisch as a boy was nicknamed "Fingers" because he avoided sports to guard his hands. He went to work at 19 as a rehearsal pianist for Broadway shows, beginning with Funny Girl in 1964. He squeezed in night school too, graduating cum laude from Queens College. In 1968, at a Broadway party, the pianist met Producer Sam Spiegel, who chatted about a film he was planning to make from John Cheever's short story The Swimmer. Three days later Hamlisch handed him the completed theme for the movie...
Died. James Ramsey Ullman, 63, author-adventurer; of cancer; in Boston. The Manhattan-born son of a bookie, Ullman became "more familiar with Tibet than with Times Square." After a brief career in the theater, he headed for the Andes in 1936, returned the next year to write The Other Side of the Mountain. Among Ullman's later works was the bestselling 1945 novel The White Tower...
Composers, directors and conductors from Santa Fe to New York are consistent Reardon admirers-which is fairly remarkable for a Manhattan-born boy who started out to be a bank president. After studying business administration in college for three days, Reardon switched to music, "because those kids were much more fun. I tried to be a pianist," he recalls, "but my hands sweat when I'm nervous, and when your hands sweat as a pianist, forget it. It's like Niagara Falls." He also experimented with composition, but was swiftly urged by his teacher to take up singing...