Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Yousuf Karsh, 53, Armenian-born, Canadian-based portrait photographer; and Estrellita Maria Nachbar, 34, Chicago medical research assistant; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
...Swift is not willing to live by bread alone (not even Tip-Top, Braun, Stroehmann or Taystee -all Swift clients). Above all, he considers himself an actor, and he has forsaken thousands in commercials to appear for $45 a week in off-Broadway's adaptation of A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. He does three roles, and since he is ordinary looking, few in the audience are aware that the same actor is Father Dolan, an old Franciscan monk, and the president of the university. Offstage, when Swift is not changing his makeup...
...PANAMA PORTRAIT (242 pp.)- Stanley Ellin-Random House...
...books, Paul Mandel's Main-side, a skilled first novel set at a Florida naval air station, and Stanley Ellin's The Panama Portrait, which takes place on an island off South America, illustrate just how far-flung fictional organization men are becoming...
...Santo Stefano. The Panama Portrait is a Madison Avenue Heart of Darkness with a shirt ad as hero. Ben Smith is the fella, a handsome Kansan who forsakes the "smell of failure" at home for the big city and a vast company, Seaways Industries. Smith thinks of himself as a thoughtful sort-there are days on end when he wonders if Seaways is really for him. But when his hero, General Manager James F. X. O'Harragh, picks him for an all-or-nothing assignment to corner the rock lobster market on tiny Santo Stefano, all doubt vanishes...