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...remembered as Jamie Wyeth's father," says Artist Andrew Wyeth. The boy certainly is his father's son. At 20, he is such a talented painter that already his portraits command up to $8,000, and late this month Manhattan's Knoedler Gallery will have a one-man show of 42 of Jamie's works. The gallery will not have what is bound to be one of the artist's most interesting works: an uncommissioned portrait of John F. Kennedy that Jamie has been working on for the last four months. Since he never...
Among entertainers, a successful one-man show on Broadway is the equivalent in other circles of a 200-ft. yacht or a private indoor tennis court-way up near the top of the status symbols. This week the most popular of contemporary French singers, a sturdy, dark-haired theatrical dervish named Gilbert Becaud, winds up a three-week run that has put him in that tiny company of performers-Chevalier, Borge, Montand, Aznavour-who can conquer a Broadway stage on their...
...chir ben Yahmed, 38, a Tunisian who decided he could exert more influence as a journalist than as a politician. An intimate of Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba, he quit his job as Minister of Information because he felt that his boss had assumed too much power. The danger of one-man rule is, in fact, one of Jeune Afrique's most persistent themes. "We believe that the funda mental role of the press is to prevent leaders from taking advantage of the people," says Ben Yahmed. "Africa's rulers have learned to fear...
...one maintains that Zimmerman approaches a one-man team. Harvard's first six wins have truly been team efforts, and an analyst could point equally accurately to the unexepected emergence of junior linemen Al Bersin and Stan Greenidge as stars as to Zimmerman...
Lutz Hoeppner put the game out of reach two minutes after the second half started. His one-man exhibition of ball control freed him for a well-placed left-footed shot...