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...Bronwyn FitzSimons, 19, looks markedly the way her mother, Maureen O'Hara, did 20 years ago. Bronwyn has five television credits and one film (Spencer's Mountain) behind her, is currently interested in a singing career. She has the sure instinct of the Hollywood child for PR-Man's English: "I sing, I dance, I'm starting a record company. I act, I work in an office, I golf. I'm a refined...
Liszt: Concerto No. 1, Les Préludes (Andre Watts, pianist; the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia) confirms the astonishing first impression 16-year-old Pianist Watts made in his New York debut in January. A fluent and subtle performance...
...Lieut. Colonel Jean-Marie Bastien-Thiry heard the sentence impassively, but flinched when the judge added that he would be expelled from the Légion d'Honneur; ex-Lieut. Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye was equally impassive as he stood at attention in his army uniform; Jacques Prévost, whose life had not even been demanded by the prosecution, heard the death sentence with a slight smile. Sentences for the six other defendants ranged from three years to life imprisonment...
That Paris was not the city at large but that part of it where The Sun Also rose from, a few streets and cafes in St.-Germain-des-Prés and Montparnasse, where every Tom, Scott and Ezra thought of himself as a man of genius, and in some cases was. Morley Callaghan, Canadian novelist, is one of those who have survived to tell how they once saw Ernest plain...
...proportional representation system, by which Cambridge Councilmen are elected, is another contributing factor to defeat of a controversial issue like urban renewal. PR makes it possible for a Councilman's election to hinge on a very small number of votes. If a Councilman supports an urban renewal project which will alienate a few voters, he jeopardizes his chances for reelection...