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Major General John Medaris, U.S. Army, 55, commander of the Huntsville Agency, with black mustache and swagger stick, often comes across as the dashing soldier type. He is something more and something different. Ohio-born John Medaris worked his way through high school driving a lobster-shift taxi and street car, began flying at twelve (he lied about his age). On his 16th birthday he enlisted in the Marine Corps, arrived in France too late for combat, was discharged as a corporal, and went back to Ohio State University for a degree in mechanical engineering. As a senior R.O.T.C. cadet...
...divas in starring roles (once, on three hours' notice and without rehearsal, she sang Donna Anna when Eleanor Steber fell ill), while maintaining her own schedule of Toscas, Leonoras and Aïdas. Unfortunately, there is more drama in her last-minute appearances offstage than on: her singing, often attractive enough, has little spark, often wins only polite applause. But she has unshatterable poise, knows how to act, makes intelligent use of a wide-ranging voice...
Scientists, it seems, are people who "work with science and drink coffee." They invent new "thoiries," or work on such things as the "salt vacine." They are "shabby dressed," often indulge in utter nonsense ("I don't see any reason for putting a satilight up"). Without them, one student conceded, "we would not have any of the modern conveniences that we have today." But the scientist, said another, "does not need to be a genius. Albert Einstein had a very low IQ." Snorted still another pupil: "I don't think he has to be so brilliant he doesn...
...Often there in her shadowy world is the woman who created it, Sculptress Louise Nevelson, 57. Wrapped in a heavy black wool coat, she waves a nervous hand at the shapes and explains: "This is the universe, the stars, the moon-and you and I, everyone." (The one in the show's title refers to the viewer.) Pointing to a wall of narrow and squat open boxes rhythmically jammed with wood bits of all shapes, she says: "This is Cathedral in the Sky, man's temple to man. And over there is the Moon Dial, the clocking...
...Quietly he had bought up stock, then loudly bombarded the Central with newspaper ads attacking its operating policies. Gradually, he softened confidence in the Central's management until he finally captured the road with the help of a dazzling financial trick. Using friends for financial help, as he often did, Young got Texas Oilmen Clint Murchison and Sid Richardson to buy 800,000 shares of Central stock owned by the C. & 0. (which had been prevented by the Interstate Commerce Commission from voting its shares) so they could vote the stock for Young. Not only had the stock been...