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Died. La Verne Andrews, 51, eldest of the singing Andrews Sisters, who quit school in 1932 at age 17 with sisters Maxine, then 14, and Patti, 12, to play the Midwest vaudeville circuit, finally rocketed to fame in 1937 with Bei Mir Bist du Schoen, went on to blend adhesive harmony and speedy tempo into such hits as Chattanooga Choo Choo, Rum and Coca Cola, Beer Barrel Polka and Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree, altogether selling 60 million copies of almost 900 recordings; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...Mir Understatement. Still, there is the occasional feeling that something is missing. To begin with, the first space for January 1763 is completely blank. This could be an example of British understatement. Or, judging by what Williams chooses to include in his listings for, say, July 1763-"Mir Kasim of Murshidabad, defeated by Thomas Adams and deposed, takes refuge in Oudh"-it may simply be a case of rushing an unfinished manuscript into print...
Intensified Debate. Heads in the Kremlin also suffer pains whenever Moskva or Novy Mir, the leading journal in the liberal upsurge, comes out on the stands. The most recent issue of Novy Mir is running a memoir by Boris Pasternak, whose work has been suspect ever since he allowed his Doctor Zhivago to be published in the West (where it ultimately sold 4,500,000 copies). The sketch relates how Pasternak once wrote to Stalin with sarcastic thanks for sparing him the same official adulation accorded Vladimir Mayakovsky, one of the great heroes of Soviet literature, and thus saving...
While looking on such heresy with a certain amount of ambiguity, the Kremlin has decided to make an example of Novy Mir. Though its poet-editor, Aleksandr Tvardovsky, 57, contends that "I am a Communist in all the complexity of my soul," the party removed him from the Central Committee, recently fired two of his editors and replaced them with three safer editors. Two weeks ago, it rebuked the magazine for "a lopsided showing of reality" and "ideological errors and drawbacks...
...Superman," Jean-Claude Killy, won everything in sight: the giant slalom, the slalom and the downhill, thereby clinching the 1967 World Cup. Behind him came Georges Mauduit, second in the giant slalom, and Guy Perillat, second in the downhill. In the women's events France's Isabelle Mir won the women's downhill, Christine Beranger the giant slalom, and Marielle Goitschel the slalom. Last week Bonnet took his forces on to Vail, Colo., for the American Internationals Team Race. The in evitable result: Killy repeated his triple triumph, and France won still another team championship...