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...stronger influences than Monk's on jazz pianists. Monk's sound is so obviously his own that to imitate it would be as risky and embarrassing as affecting a Chinese accent when ordering chop suey. Besides, Monk is off in a bag all his own, and in the sleek, dry art that jazz threatens to become, that is the best thing about...
...rewards for hustling are there for everyone to see in the ornate homes of the wealthy on Malabar and Cumballa hills. Bombay's sleek women, who set India's fashions, wear slacks by day as they whip about the city in sports cars, and are lovely by night in sheer, gold-encrusted saris. The new and old rich frequent the marble-floored Willingdon Sports Club, where vegetarian diners are discreetly noted by chalk marks on the backs of their chairs, and gather on Sundays for horse racing at the Western India Turf Club, where a sign...
...After keeping its secret for more than a year, Ford finally announced that it is producing an auto designed specifically for Europe's prestigious racing circuit. Ford's new racer is a sleek fastback with a 200-m.p.h. top speed and a 375-h.p. engine that is placed "midships"-in front of the back axle but behind the driver-to achieve the best weight distribution. Ford plans to field a racing team with its new Grand Touring racers, which will be built in a rented London plant, and hopes to have about 100 cars ready for sale...
That is roughly what Hollywood is doing. It used to produce an ever better line of girls-smoothly fuselaged, four-motored, flaps up, rubber-cushioned and sex-powered. Goddess after sleek goddess was projected into the skies, from the 1920s' Mae Murray of the bee-stung lips, the memory of whom is still enough to make old men tumble from rooming house porches, to Marilyn Monroe, Hollywood's last legend of sex. Fighting men in training for Cassino and Saipan were supplied with endless photos of film Aphrodites-Jane Russell in the hay; Rita Hayworth in a negligee...
...Architecture Building staggers out by layers to shut off the vista up New Haven's Chapel Street. From the street there appear to be nine stories, but the inside is shelved off into 36 different levels, with ceilings ranging from seven feet to 28 feet. Shunning sleek exterior finishes, Rudolph opted for corduroy-like concrete walls. To make them even rougher, he had workmen rough up the edges with claw hammers. The building is both massive and full of surprises. "All sorts of conceits," says Rudolph, puckishly pointing out fishbones, seashells and coral in the concrete, "are buried...