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...clothing manufacturers claim that sales are up because of Ford's well-publicized skiing interest. Pipe and tobacco dealers have visibly benefited. The old-fashioned martini is again an honorable drink after the long, dark season of the daiquiri (Kennedy), low-calorie root beer (Johnson) and skimmed milk (Nixon...
...must do, and he does it well. Using tools he has sharpened on poetry form Milton to Eliot. Ricks demonstrated the extent Dylan's mastery of words and rhymes. "Lonesome Death" is a deceptively simple song coming from the early '60s era of civil rights agitation William Zanzinger a tobacco plantation owner, kills Hattle Carroll, one of his servants with a cane in a spontaneous, unprovoked fit of anger. "In a courtroom of honor" where "the ladder of law has no top and no bottom" a judge releases him on bail and later him off with a six month sentence...
Onassis was not to the villa born. The son of a Greek tobacco merchant, he grew up in the Turkish city of Smyrna. At age 17 he left his family, who by then had fled to Greece, and traveled by steerage to Argentina with less than $60 in his pocket. By the time he was 23, he had parlayed his earnings from odd jobs (such as dishwashing and working as a telephone lineman) into a million-dollar business that included cigarette manufacturing, dealing in rugs, hides and furs, and operating a decrepit tramp freighter. His formula: 20-hour work days...
...unlikely performance by an aging socialite. But there on the island of Pate off northern Kenya stood American Tobacco Co. Heiress Doris Duke, 62, pounding a bamboo xylophone and singing along with a chorus of native musicians. "I've long had an interest in African music," said Duke, who joined an almost all-black Baptist choir in Nutley, N.J., back in 1969. For the still stately blonde, the Pate revels were part of an 18-day, 3,000-mile plane safari across Kenya and Zambia. After mingling with swarthy dhow captains, veiled ladies and outdoor coffee sellers in Lamu...
...been comparatively little pressure on composers to wave the flag or concentrate on Americana, though Leonard Bernstein is setting to music poems by eight favorite writers, including Whitman and Poe. Dominick Argento and Vivian Fine are writing chamber operas respectively on Chekhov's monologue On the Harmfulness of Tobacco and Famous Women (Gertrude Stein, Isadora Duncan, Virginia Woolf). For a touch of Shakespeare, Alan Hovhaness and John Harbison are at work on operas based on Pericles and The Winter's Tale, though Harbison picked his play four years ago. Out in Seattle, the Eastern-inspired Hovhaness is also...