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Wisdom: "Bob, are you there?" called Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky from the piano in his soundproof Hollywood studio. "Come here. Sit down. I want to show you something." Squinching like a mole into neat, penetrating closeups, Composer Stravinsky then proceeded to show a young protege, Conductor Robert Craft, as well as...
¶ Yves Saint-Laurent, 21, designer for Paris' fashion-pacing House of Dior, was named chief designer, thereby becoming successor to the late Christian Dior. Lean, shy and bespectacled, Algerian-born Saint-Laurent got his start at only 17 when Dior plucked him from a fashion-designer contest he...
Last week, despite the mutterings of patronage-bent Republicans, President Eisenhower named Democrat Robert McKinney, New Mexico newspaper publisher (Santa Fe New Mexican), cattleman and corporation director, as the U.S. representative in the 45-nation International Atomic Energy Agency, created to carry out the atoms-for-peace program that the...
Billy Prince, a handsome, hustling man who hates offices, was born William Wood, the son of a fairly prosperous New York insurance executive. At ten, he became the protege of a distant cousin, the late Frederick Henry Prince, a brilliant, eccentric New England speculator who liked to boast that he...
Closer to the Masses. In the current dispute Mao talks of wooing the intellectuals and bringing the party closer to the masses, while Chou and Liu contend that letting all flowers bloom is a serious and heretical mistake, and that the counter-rectification drive must continue until every "rightist" weed...