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Rockefeller and president of the nation's second biggest bank, New York's Chase Manhattan. On the strength of his name alone, David Rockefeller is entitled to sit with the powerful, but as head of the Chase he is much more?he is a prime mover in a profession that since the days of the Medici has heavily shaped the course of the world's economic affairs...
...Staircase strode jerkily into public awareness; Tin Pan Alley came up with That Futuristic Rag; and the nation was swept up in a fever of excitement over something called Modern Art. Of the many artists who rallied behind this great debut of modernism, one stands as the prime mover: Arthur Bowen Davies...
Director Francois Truffaut (Jules and Jim), a prime mover of the New Wave, exploits his star's Chaplinesque lost-waif charm, but Aznavour lacks the clownish resilience that enabled Chaplin's eternal tramp to give as good as he took from life. A hero who falls to his defeat generates dramatic interest; but the piano player seems to wallow in the complacency of his own despair, as if he were past caring and past caring about. Truffaut's centrifugal direction sends pieces of crime thriller, love story, and psychological case study flying off at unrelated tangents. Moreover...
Died. Erwin Service Wolfson, 60, co-founder and top executive of Diesel Construction Co., an Ohio pantsmaker's son who became a prime mover in the skyscraper boom that has altered Manhattan's skyline, topped off his career as contractor and investor with the world's largest commercial office building-the 59-story, $100 million Pan Am Building; of cancer; in Purchase...
...collegians' urge to go on studying stems from all sorts of reasons, and staying in the academic womb is apparently the least of them. Beating the draft is no prime mover, either-although one Princeton cynic did remark last week, "I'm doing graduate work at my fiancée's school next year so I can marry her this summer and avoid the draft." But far more pervasive is the idea that the B.A. is neither sufficient as a guarantee of a good job-big-company recruiters increasingly demand M.A.s-nor as a certificate of intellectual satisfaction...