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...Duce did not live to see the day when Romano, now 33, has won acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music as a "cross between California and Eastern hard bop," Romano specializes in "Italian blues," plays entirely by ear, is also a self-taught harmonica and guitar player. Last week he was fronting a combo of five pieces that was packing them in on the Italian nightclub circuit. Two fair blooms of Scandinavian beauty-Sweden's Princesses Birgitta and Désirée-were due in the U.S. this week...
Part of the phenomenon is the author himself. André Schwarz-Bart, 32, is largely self-taught. Born in the long-embattled French-German border city of Metz, the son of a Polish-Jewish peddler, Andre spoke Yiddish as his first language and picked up French in the streets while selling newspapers to help support his family. At 14, after the Nazis invaded France, Andre lost his parents to the gas chambers, subsequently escaped a French internment camp to join the Maquis, and was finally mustered out of the French army at an underage 17. As a postwar tractor-factory...
Much of his music, by his own testimony, "derives from a time and place different than ours-from ancient principles and ancient cultures. The study of Eastern music is my lifework." A largely self-taught composer, Hovhaness owes more to the ragas of India and the folk dances of his father's native Armenia than to the European modernists under whose influence most U.S. composers are reared. In the streets of India and the theaters of Japan, says Hovhaness, he heard oblique echoes of his own work...
Dowling refused to go into his father's firm ("If you do anything good, people say, 'No wonder; his old man's head of the office' "), instead, worked in a handful of real-estate companies, specialized in redeveloping slum areas, became a self-taught expert. By 1943, when his father died, leaving him stock control (now 25%) of City Investing. Dowling had by then already made a name for himself...
...words, "read or skimmed 10,000 legal books, and written between two and three million words." In the opinion of celebrated Liability Lawyer Melvin ("King of Torts") Belli, Chessman has become "one of the sharpest and best-trained lawyers I have met." With the help of various lawyers, self-taught Legal Expert Chessman managed to keep his case dragging back and forth through the courts for twelve years after he was sentenced to death. His major appeals have revolved around the disputed, 2,000-page transcript of his 1948 trial. Court Reporter Ernest Perry died of a heart attack when...