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...whose real name was Naum Neemia Pevsner. His brother Alexei Pevsner, a Soviet scientist, recalls that the family in the remote Russian town of Briansk always said of Naum: "He does not go through the streets but over the rooftops." The question was on what rooftop he would finally perch. Sent abroad to study in Munich in 1910, Naum switched from medicine to the natural sciences, to engineering, finally decided on sculpture...
...chimps of his soldiers too long, and they had lots of bones to pick. The animals, they decided, were fair game. So while Nkrumah sat in Conakry, turning himself into a Guinea pig and pondering whether he should pack his trunk and join his friend Nasser at his Nile perch, the boared soldiers decided what they needed was some good gnus. One night when they were all croc-ed, they turned the zoo into Nkrumah's Bar & Gorilla...
...rubbe-otherwise, the mikes pick up the actor's footfalls. He prowls about the sets in narrow-eyed search of peeling paint. He even makes elaborate taxi tours of the entire New York area to inspect all the billboards he has paid for. Once he climbed to a high perch in Yankee Stadium to see if a panning TV camera could catch a certain outfield billboard; he concluded that the sign was out of range, so he didn't buy the space...
Captain of Grenadiers. Despite the drawbacks of involvement, Schlesinger rejects the notion that the best historian is the one who has withdrawn to a perch above the heat and passion of life. Thucydides served as a general during the Peloponnesian War. Edward Gibbon, a soldier in his youth, found the experience valuable when he wrote Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. "The captain of Hampshire Grenadiers," Gibbon insisted, "was not useless to the historian of the Roman Empire." Indeed, says Schlesinger, "until the last half of the 19th century, the great historians were, in one way or another, captains...
...Satellite Corp., Leo D Welch, 67, supervised two notable accomplishments. On the ground he launched a $200 million stock issue that was snapped up by communications companies and 190,000 space-minded investors; into the air he launched the Early Bird satellite, now relaying sound and pictures from a perch 22,300 miles over the equator. Welch, who had earlier retired as Jersey Standard's chair man, was bothered by a kidney ailment He pressed for a younger successor and last week he had his wish. Taking over the $125,000 job: courtly, cerebral James McCormack, 54, a retired...