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...established architectural office of the Grad Partnership, forming Walker/Grad Inc. By then, however, the recession was causing such sharp cutbacks in new construction that few jobs were to be had. But Walker noticed that retailers kept on building new stores and remodeling old ones. He broke into the then staid field by refurbishing the shoe department of the Henri Bendel store in Manhattan. The result was so bright and tasteful that other merchants noticed it, and Walker suddenly found himself in demand. He now employs 35 people and does more than $15 million worth of store projects a year...
...Forge Music Fair, outside Philly, and Ella was still incredible: still a great voice, still great scat-singing. She did the usuals: "Let's Do It," and a few Harold Arlen and George Gershwin numbers. Peterson was a little more on the cocktail, night club side, a little too staid for my tastes. Basie was fantastic, and he had an incredible trombone section. They're all polished and brilliant. His "Satin Doll" can be better than the late Duke's version. Joe Pass was pretty unmemorable...
...skidding end to the most dramatic racing duel in recent memory. Lauda is a methodical Austrian whose technical brilliance and unflappable personality had brought stability-and a championship-back to Ferrari after a decade of decline. Hunt is the dashing Englishman who brought the verve of a swashbuckler to staid Team McLaren. Roundhead and Cavalier, a rivalry that seemed fated...
...fended off one cagey evening pursuer by turning heel and hazarding that well-worn suggestion of what he could do to his ancestors, just as a staid gentleman with an attache case glanced in our direction. I still feel lucky that he didn't step out of the darkness later to make me regret the public injury. I plunged reluctantly into somber dissections of the mystery of romance. And a porter advised me that marrying him would beat bedding down on the floor of the train station...
...that conversation concerns tomorrow and not yesterday. Integration has a way to go in the South, but the ugly confrontations of the '50s and '60s, the bombings and Klan revivals, the school riots and statehouse harangues seem as remote as the Dred Scott decision. It is up North, in staid Boston, that the races clash and skirmish. Little Rock, Ark., scene of former Governor Orval Faubus' strident segregationist harangues, has thoroughly integrated its schools...