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...Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, gathered by Musicologist Robert Kimball, is a model of typography, design and scholarship. The oversize book can lie indolently on a piano, ready to recall the hits of four decades. Because shows are arranged in chronological order, the reader can watch Porter's growth from restless experimenter to self-assured master. Early on, the songwriter attempted to overturn the bromides of his epoch. When saccharine "Mammy" tunes permeated Broadway, he celebrated a black man who journeyed back to Tennessee only to miss "the great big tall skyscrapers/ And the elevated's roar...
...addition to his involvement with the Catholic Church, Law as an undergraduate was a member of the Democratic club and interested in piano, swimming, and writing...
...just after her marriage. "Oh joy! Oh! Bliss unutterable." Also, "a little Heaven just after dinner." And on the morning she got pregnant in May 1879, "a very happy few minutes of love in our room." This was bright-eyed Mabel Loomis Todd, 22, of Washington, who played the piano and painted water-colors and confided to her diary about her young husband David. When David Todd moved to Amherst to teach astronomy, Mabel began flirting with one of the students, Ned Dickinson. She then took up with his unhappily married father Austin, a grizzled 53, treasurer of the college...
...travels surrounded by four bodyguards, stays in $200-a-night hotel suites and hands out $5 tips. His hosts are often given precise instructions to provide him with a telephone at all times, a bed for a nap in the afternoon, even a piano to play by night. Security guards at his Washington headquarters are supplied with his picture and told never to ask for his identification. The United States Information Agency (then called the International Communication Agency) was a neglected foreign policy backwater before Charles Z. Wick, 66, became its director in 1981, but the former Hollywood moviemaker, venture...
...N.Y.S.E.'S worst casualty of 1983 was Cincinnati's Baldwin-United, the piano maker turned insurance giant. After expanding too boldly into financial services, the company in September filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. California toymaker Mattel was zapped by the collapse of the video-game craze, and its stock fell sharply. Pennsylvania-based Nutri/System, which operates a chain of weight-loss centers, fell from grace when earnings slumped after it acquired an executive job placement service and a cosmetics firm. Anacomp, an Indianapolis data processor, had problems with some software products, and its stock tumbled. The drop...