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...Symphonies. The Boston Symphony had already been on a "Western tour" (Rochester to Cincinnati); later in Boston it would introduce highly touted Russian Violinist Leonid Kogan and present the novelty of French Saxophone Virtuoso Marcel Mule. The Chicago Symphony was recruiting a brand-new 150-voice choir under famed Choral Conductor Margaret Hillis; the Cleveland Orchestra opened its 40th season with Conductor George Szell directing the first of nine commissioned works: Alvin Etler's Concerto in One Movement...
...Look (1947) and the Flat Look (1954), supporter pf the Sack Look (1957); of a heart attack while playing cards on vacation in Montecatini, Italy. At 30 he launched his career as assistant to such shapemakers as Robert Piguet and Lucien Lelong. After the war French Textile Mogul Marcel Boussac backed Dior, and a year later the designer had made fashion history, to remain fashion's tireless (13 hours a day) kingpin ever since, the much-publicized cause of the rise and fall of bosoms, the shrink and stretch of hips, the sight and flight of knees. Often creating...
...little man's awe of the tycoons soon rubbed off. Prime targets such as Nelson Rockefeller, RCA's David Sarnoff and Marcel Palmaro, head of Lehman Bros.' foreign department, were soon being buttonholed by Burmese industrialists, Taiwan manufacturers, Brazilian bankers. Projects from underdeveloped countries eager for foreign capital were produced by the hatful. India is ready to open its great bamboo forest in the Mysore province for paper and pulp production if it can get $8,500,000 in foreign exchange in return for half ownership. India's Orissa province needs $1,500,000 in foreign...
...Playhouse 90, TV's only 1½-hour show, was last year's best dramatic program. So far this year it is only the longest. Last week the show tried an adaptation of Topaze, Marcel Pagnol's tart comedy about a naively idealistic French teacher who is gulled by a grafting politician until he turns the tables, learning at last that vice is its own reward. The preposterous little fable is funniest when played in deadly earnest. Playhouse 90 pitched it in a mood of self-conscious farce with blackouts to end each act, played it with...
That night amazed police described the weapon that had brought Marcel Leopold low: a hollow dart, built along the lines of a two-stage rocket, which was shot from a blowpipe to strike the murdered man's flesh, and then released a sharply pointed lead bullet from its tip to penetrate his vitals. Had it also carried a load of deadly poison on its point? The police were not quite sure. Neither did they have an idea of who might have fired it. "All we know," said one official spokesman, "is that this doesn't look like...