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Died. Olaf Gulbransson, 85, snub-nosed, sybaritic cartoonist for Germany's satirical weekly Simplicissimus since 1902 ; of a stroke; at his home overlooking Te-gernsee, West Germany. Eccentric (at work he often wore only a loincloth), Norwegian-born Gulbransson gained world repute for his boldly contoured caricatures. He continued to work for Simplicissimus even after (in 1933) it became a Nazi-run organ, once gave the political artist's classic explanation: "I hate them as much as you do, but what's the use fighting them...
Steve is the only Harvard musician for whom jazz is a "vocation, not an avocation," and he stands almost alone as a music major with jazz orientation. He feels the great percentage of music faculty members snub their noses at jazz, and moreover thinks this is "strange, and a shame, for well-schooled musicians." The reaction is ironically negative: "they won't accept jazz as an art form, when in a way it's the only art form that's truly American...
Having got as much mileage as possible from the snub, Nasser then met Murphy with the greatest cordiality. Murphy later told Egyptian newsmen: "We had a very thorough, very friendly and very satisfactory conversation ranging over a large number of subjects," and added of Nasser: "I have a very high estimate of his ability and knowledge." Asked an Egyptian reporter: "Are you going to change your policy as a result of talking to Nasser?" Murphy snapped: "Are you going to change yours...
...been heard in Russia for over a century." The pianist who has been evoking that sort of reception for a month from Riga to Kiev is a far cry from the saturnine dandy with the "Florentine profile." Van Cliburn is a gangling (6 ft. 4 in., 165 Ibs.), snub-nosed, mop-haired boy out of Kilgore, as Texan as pecan pie. Instead of medals, he carried a well-thumbed Bible; instead of doeskin gloves, a single dress shirt, a plastic wing collar given to him by a friend, a ratty grey Shetland sweater that often showed under his dress jacket...
...Complain."In the 65 years since her birth in Bilbao, Spain, of Hungarian parents, short, snub-nosed Queen Mimi had seen great changes come over her people. "Once the gypsies were horse traders," she explained to reporters from her deathbed last week. "Progress has compelled them to deal in used autos. But one can't complain." From stateless, fortunetelling wanderers, the Cuirara tribe became prosperous, passport-carrying salesmen, who drive in style up and down Europe in search of fresh markets for their cars. Only two months ago, Queen Mimi and an entourage...