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...concentration camps of the north." Lara's fictional fate was prophetic. In 1960, after Pasternak himself died, So viet secret police arrested Olga Ivinskaya, the handsome blonde poetess who had been Pasternak's great love, soul mate, literary agent and secretary -and his model for the tender and generous Lara. It was the second time Olga had had to pay for her devotion: after the Stalin regime accused Paster nak of intellectual heresy, she spent four years in a concentration camp, was re leased only in the amnesty following Stalin's death in 1953. Last week, possibly...
...mold of Gerald Murphy hardly seemed likely to form an artist. Andover-prepped, Yale-educated, Skull and Bones-tapped, Murphy was elected the best-dressed man in the class of 1911. He was so handsome and rich that F. Scott Fitzgerald patterned Dick Diver, the golden-boy hero of Tender Is the Night, after him. For 22 years, until his retirement in 1956, Murphy was president of Fifth Avenue's chic Mark Cross leather-goods store, which his father began. Until his death last week at 76, he never bought any modern art or hung anything more than...
...WHAT A LOVELY WAR. Mockingly ironic, tender, frolicsome and tragic, this musical revolves around the unlikely subject of the follies of World War I. Blending English music-hall sentimentality with...
...since the late Mildred Bailey made it her own. While the California Suite is billed as Torme's "major composition" on this album, it is memorable chiefly as the sort of thing in which Lyricist Torme rhymes La Jolla with "annoy you." But the songs -wistful, full of tender despair-make Side 2 worth the price...
...best-ventilated areas in the building. Were the complainers allowed to visit other parts of the library, they might well decide that separation from the 10,000 men of Harvard and their 20,000 feet is not altogether undesirable. Far from working an hardship upon these tender maidens, the authorities have done an act of pure compassion. Who could, in the spirit of Harvardian gentlemanliness, wish upon his worst enemy a breath of Lamont air? David Gilfillan...