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Benares-born Ravi Shankar, a younger brother of famed Dancer Uday Shankar (TIME, Nov. 22, 1948), started mastering his difficult art when he was 18. He has written movie scores and ballets (including one based on Nehru's Discovery of India), is working to modernize Indian musical techniques, i.e., standardize instruments and notation. But he despairs of ever accomplishing true mastery of the sitar. "It is like driving through a mist," he says. "The more you drive, the more you realize the road is still there...
Charles Bailey himself launched the most direct assault imaginable on coronary disease-reaming out the diseased part of the arteries (TIME, Nov. 26). The first two patients, on whom Bailey based his preliminary announcement, have both done well. One, a man of 52, has gone back to work. But Bailey was not content with the instrument that he used (it had a rigid steel shank), so he soon designed another. The result is a piece of piano wire with a loop handle at one end, a tiny ball at the other, and 1½ in. from the tip, a thicker...
...long since outlived their functions and represent a net loss to the Italian taxpayers. But even more of a menace to Italy's economic health are such aggressive, purposeful enti as E.N.I., the burgeoning oil and gas corporation which, under the leadership of hard-driving Enrico Mattei (TIME, Nov. 29, 1954), has waged a determined fight to prevent private capital from sharing in Italy's oil development...
Chest a Bust. Another private eye told a story of going with Joe DiMaggio and Frank Sinatra, on Nov. 5, 1954. to raid a building where Marilyn Monroe was spending the night (they broke into the wrong apartment). The detective's report, stolen or sold from the files, matched in every detail a leering account of the fiasco in the September 1955 issue of Confidential. (Also called. Sinatra denied under oath that he had participated in the actual raid.) Hollywood brass was so worried by the peephole press, said a third private eye, that major studios once considered raising...
Fish & Chips. The Lisbon quake began at 9:30 a.m. on All Saints' Day, Saturday. Nov. 1, 1755. As modern earthquakes go (100,000 perished in the Tokyo-Yokohama area in 1923), it was no great shakes: it killed probably no more than 15,000 people out of a population of about 275,000. But to its contemporaries all over Europe, it was the greatest disaster since the flood...