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Died. Bronislaw Hubermann, 64, Polish-born violinist, rated among Europe's best; at Nant sur Corsier, Switzerland. Noted for his virtuosity (at 13, Hubermann played Brahms for Brahms himself, moved him to tears), Hubermann was one of the first artists to leave Hitler's Germany, spent much of his time thereafter organizing the Palestine Symphony of Tel Aviv and scribbling books in support of a United States of Europe...
...high on the hog. At Manhattan's Hotel Commodore, 1,300 diners paid $100 a plate for a meal of crab meat in avocado pear figaro, consommé de volaille madrilene, paupiette of Boston sole Marguery, filet mignon sauté with mushroom colbert, salad chiffonade Argenteuil, bombe vanilla sur socle with black cherries jubilee. Cocktails and two kinds of wine were thrown...
Along the French Riviera, most of the war damage was repaired. The famed. white Negresco hotel in Nice was open, A meal with wine at Cagnes-sur-Mer cost 60?. All told, in eleven days in France, he exchanged only $52 at the official rate...
...Pronounced Pull-it-sur, not Pew-lit-sur...
Since he moved to the Big Sur country near Carmel, Calif, in 1943, he has become the hero of a group of neo-bohemians who live in tents and huts along the nearby highways, talking and practicing Freud and D. H. Lawrence, and letting their willing women keep house and hold jobs. In Harper's Magazine this month, Mildred Edie Brady calls the Miller devotees "the new cult of sex and anarchy"; their bible, says she, is a book by Wilhelm Reich entitled Function of the Orgasm (says Henry Miller, who claims no responsibility for the cult: "A boring...