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...welter of years: "What would happen if I put in a long-distance call from my desk right now? No answer? No such number? No such country?" Highest Rank. No such country. The present has deservedly rewarded Nabokov, now 67, whose novels in English-The Real Life of Sebastian Knight, Bend Sinister, Pnin, Lolita and Pale Fire-have placed him in the highest rank of contemporary writers. These books stimulated a demand for the au thor's total work, so that most of his earlier Russian novels have now completed the journey into translation...
...Sebastian S. Kresge Professor ship of Marketing, is one of four faculty chairs given by the foundation to four business schools of different universities...
...Lovin' Spoonful are four shaggies in their 20s who trade in "goodtime music." The most versatile of the new groups, they mix hard rock and country, funky blues and jug-band music. Biggest Spoon is John Sebastian, who, with Zal Yanovsky, a grinning zany in a ten-gallon hat, handles the songwriting. Joe Butler works out on drums, Steve Boone on the bass, guitar and piano. "Together," says Sebastian, who is the son of Classical Harmonica Player John Sebastian, "we make up about one fairly efficient human being." There are no protests in their songs, just new and often...
...grandmother lived 101 years and his mother reached 103. Sebastian Spering Kresge, grounding his hope on heredity and a lifelong abstinence from whisky and tobacco, confidently expected to equal them, and he nearly did. But last week, nine months short of his hundredth birthday, Kresge died of pneumonia and complications that doctors gently described as "old age." For the founder of the S.S. Kresge Co.'s far-reaching chain of variety stores, not attaining the century mark was one of the few failures in a long and productive life...
Traveling Salesman. "S.S.," as Kresge was called by subordinates, was famed for his penury, which he acquired in the eastern Pennsylvania farming country where his Swiss ancestors had established the small (pop. 500) town of Kresgeville 120 years before his birth. Sebastian's father was a hard-pressed farmer who had one farm seized by a sheriff for mortgage nonpayment; young S.S. helped support a later, smaller farm out of his $22-a-month salary as a schoolteacher...