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...show is the creation of veteran Writer-Producer Jon Stone, 52, a Sesame Street pioneer and the winner of eight Emmy Awards for that show as well as such specials as Christmas Eve on Sesame Street. Stone's notion was to create a quest theme. The story opens as Big Bird (played, as he is on Sesame Street, by Caroll Spinney), roller-skates through Manhattan's Chinatown and admires a scroll depicting the legendary phoenix of China. He is smitten and resolves to go to China as a sort of avian Henry Kissinger, to tell the phoenix that...
...lectern in London's Guildhall last week was Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who received this year's $170,000 Templeton Foundation Prize for Progress in Religion. The award, inaugurated in 1972 by U.S. Mutual Fund Wizard John M. Templeton, cited the Nobel-prizewinning Soviet exile as a "pioneer in the renaissance of religion in atheist nations" and a "living symbol of the continuing vitality of the Orthodox tradition of spirituality...
...electronics firms of California's Silicon Valley, which are renowned for their blue-jeaned whiz kids, are now seeking pinstripe talent skilled in the Big Business techniques of mass marketing. In the past six months, Valley firms have lured several officers away from major American corporations. Apple, a pioneer in personal computers, has hired a new chief executive: John Sculley, 44, who was president of Pepsi-Cola. Osborne, the leading maker of portable computers, recruited as its chief executive Robert Jaunich, 43, former president of Consolidated Foods. Atari, a strong force in home computers as well as video games...
Throughout his intense immersion in the time of his times, Norman Mailer has repeated his conviction that making history is preferable to reading it. In his influential essay "The White Negro" (1957), Mailer turned the emerging social type known as the hipster into a daring pioneer adrift in "the perpetual climax of the present," freed of all moral guides and codes of conduct except the thrumming of his own nervous system. The author specifically disavowed any precedents for this existential frame of mind: "If the ethic reduces to Know Thyself and Be Thyself, what makes it radically different from Socratic...
RECOVERING. Marvin Mitchelson, 54, celebrity divorce lawyer and palimony pioneer; from broken ribs and a sprained neck received when his Rolls-Royce was hit by a Mercedes-Benz and knocked into a utility pole; in Los Angeles. His recuperation was undoubtedly speeded by the award last week to one of his clients, Dena al-Fassi, of the largest divorce settlement ever granted: half the claimed $6 billion fortune of her ex-husband, Saudi Sheik Mohammed al-Fassi...