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...traveling, insists that he has never accepted a free plane ticket. There are seven European hotels in which Fielding allows himself to stay without paying because the operator is a close friend and would otherwise be offended. He makes up for that by overtipping: during a two-day sojourn at Madrid's Palace Hotel, managed by Alfonso Font, he gave away $130 in gratuities...
...become Spanish citizens. "It was not for political reasons or anything like that," says Brabender. "But I like the life here and have lots of friends." More typical of the U.S. players abroad is Brabender's teammate, Miles Aiken, 27, a center from St. Bonaventure. He regards his sojourn in sunny Spain as an interesting but temporary cultural adventure, and plans to return to the U.S. to work in the poverty program...
...young Cézanne was working even then at the plastic shapes, low-keyed values, and flat planes that would eventually supplant the impressionists. Paul Gauguin's stark Self-Portrait: Near to Golgotha illustrates the anguish that the artist felt when he arrived in Tahiti for his final sojourn-ill, unable to sell his canvases, and forced to subsist on borrowed money. Vuillard's fame as a painter rests on his domestic scenes, but he also enjoyed Paris' gay night life, as may be seen from his decorative vignette of Actors Yvonne Printemps and Sacha Guitry...
Forecast). Fresh from a long sojourn at a Colorado mountain retreat last April, Hardin recorded this album at Manhattan's Town Hall. Most of the selections are from his previous albums (If I Were a Carpenter, Red Balloon, The Lady Came from Baltimore). What those albums do not contain, however, is the degree of spontaneity and emotional depth that mark Hardin's in-person performing. He has one of the most poignant voices in the folk field, seemingly always about to crack or lapse into a sigh, as if the effort of every graceful phrase cost him pain...
Magistrate Juda, who led the Bikinians during most of their 22-year sojourn as castaways of the Atomic Age, will not be going home. He died of cancer four months...