Word: piri
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SWINGER'S GUIDE TO LONDON by Piri Halasz. 207 pages. Coward-McCann...
...They are very serious about their seemingly playful work, and their background is apt to be broader-or at any rate more technical-than that of the traditional artist. Their experience includes such far-away fields as nuclear physics, optics and electronics. "They are of the technical age," says Piri Halasz, who wrote the story, "but they remain artists primarily." Researcher Leah Gordon found Nuclear Engineer Earl Reiback's projection technology so complicated that she brought along Science Researcher Sydnor Vanderschmidt to help her interview...
When she visited London in 1949 as quite a young girl, Piri Halasz looked at the bomb sites, went to Madame Tussaud's, the Tower of London, Dickens' Old Curiosity Shop, and a pub where she remembers having "a dreary serving of watery mashed potatoes and Brussels sprouts." Somehow that wasn't enough to discourage her. She remained a complete Anglophile, majored in English literature at Barnard, wrote her senior thesis on T. S. Eliot, and went back last year to find a better England. It was L'Etoile and Ad Lib and the trattorias...
...wasn't necessarily planned that way, but Piri's visits to London were good preparation for writing this week's cover story on the swinging city. She drew more immediately on the work of seven staffers in our London bureau, as well as five U.S. and British photographers. They reported to the slightly jealous eyes of the editors in New York that the project involved four days of "the most concentrated swinging - discothéques, restaurants, art gallery and private parties, gambling, pub crawling - that any group of individuals has ever enjoyed or suffered, depending on your...
...some 200 businessmen, economists and public officials up to and including the President of the United States. Out of the 400 pages of copy that the correspondents sent to New York, plus a mass of other research and reports, Senior Editor Edward L. Jamieson, Writer Marshall Loeb and Researcher Piri Halasz reached the consensus reported in the cover story on the new and exuberant U.S. economy. The new mood of confidence and optimism offers a striking contrast to the temper reported exactly one year ago this week in our June 1, 1962 issue when the cover featured Bear v. Bull...