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Silent Bankers. Most Swiss bankers were characteristically mum about the National-Zeitung's story, but showed no eagerness to refute it. In Madrid. Ramfis Trujillo called the story a "slanderous potpourri of half-truths, exaggerations and outright lies'' planted by a former secretary of his playboy brother Rhadames. He couldn't help feeling sorry for himself, in all his luxurious exile: "My entire life was marred and unhappy because I was the heir of Rafael Trujillo...
...answer to that is all of them-the recent ones anyway-a sort of Harry Fitzgerald Troovenhower, as played by Robert Ryan (Oct. 20). Richard Rodgers and Alan Jay Lerner have a date (March 14) but no title for their first collaborative musical, about which they are keeping mum. Rick Be-soyan, who wrote Off Broadway's phenomenally successful Little Mary Sunshine, has done another parody of the schmalzerettas of the '20s called The Student Gypsy, or The Prince of Lieder-krcmz. Starring Eileen (Little Mary) Brennan, this one is for Broadway (Jan. 31). England...
President Kennedy had decided that mum was the word about the U.S. economy. He canceled his press conference for last week, made no major public pronouncements. But while he was convinced that silence would serve best for the moment, he was having some trouble getting the word to the Administration's troops...
...Mum's the Word. The accident did far more to Carpenter than break his left leg and collapse a lung; it changed his life. Lying in a hospital bed for two weeks, Carpenter decided the time had come to settle down. He went back to the university, met and married a pretty, vivacious usherette named Rene Price, and planned to become a Navy pilot after graduation. Despite his new determination, Carpenter found he still could not pass a course in heat transfer that he needed for his degree. But the Navy somehow assumed that he had completed work...
...sets, which include works by 74 authors ranging from Homer to Freud. Last year alone, 51,083 Great Books sets were sold for $22 million, a 27% increase over 1960. As a division of Publisher (and ex-Connecticut Senator) William Benton's Encyclopaedia Britannica Inc., Great Books keeps mum about its profits, but Britannica executives concede that it earns enough to pay some of its regional sales managers $100,000 a year...