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...were illegally manipulating the company's stock. On the basis of that probe, a federal grand jury took over in 1959. The jury was particularly interested in four men. Three of them, Samuel Garfield, Irving Pasternak and Allard Roen, were Las Vegas operators; the fourth, Allen K. Swann, was their attorney...
...George London, Violinist Isaac Stern, Guitarist Andres Segovia and Cellist Pablo Casals for subsequent concerts. Dorothy Stickney will do readings from Edna St. Vincent Millay. Margaret Leighton will read Dorothy Parker: A Telephone Call, Dusk Before Fireworks, The Lovely Leave. Britain's Michael Flanders and Donald Swann will do the same, somewhat intellectual variety show they scored with on Broadway; Cyril Ritchard (Romulus) will appear with Hermione Baddeley in something billed as an "intimate revue of songs and sketches...
...myth of Shylock has, as it has once before, given rise to the countermyth: the myth of the Jew as artist, as aesthete, as hypersensitive and anxious man; and in this mask he has engaged the attention of the great novelists of our century. For the creators of Swann (but also Bloch), of Leopold Bloom, Joseph K, as well as the recreator of the Biblical Joseph, the Jew has come to reflect increasingly the problems and pressures of Western man. If he is still (or more than ever) the Outsider, he knows that he has been cast in a role...
...field where Angel et al. were treading lightly (the survival rate of new record companies is less than 1%), Marianne and Barbara compiled a catalogue of releases that, to most merchandisers, read like a prospectus for bankruptcy-W. H. Auden declaiming Auden, Sir Ralph Richardson pacing gravely along Swann's Way, Faulkner grappling with his own syntax, an ailing Colette reading from her novels while the bed sheets rustled...
...Drop of a Hat. With perfect timing and teamwork, England's Joke-and-Jingle Experts Michael Flanders and Donald Swann offer the season's most sophisticated...