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...made. Weekdays-or, more accurately, nights -he is petted in London by his charming brunette mistress Alex. Weekends, he travels down to Oxfordshire to be sedately worshiped by his handsome blonde wife Sybil. When not playing house with his unsuspecting ladies, Owen lives dangerously in the business world. A topflight accountant specializing in bank foreclosures, he has devised an unethical but within-the-law gimmick that adds pounds and pounds to his income...
Died. Samuel Chotzinoff, 74, NBC's classical-music chief since 1941, who lured his good friend Arturo Toscanini back from Italy to conduct for NBC, became what some called "vice president for Toscanini," stayed on after the maestro retired to create topflight TV opera, commissioned Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors, started Leontyne Price on her way to stardom; of heart disease; in Manhattan...
Though he was once regarded as a topflight Marblehead helmsman, Hunt now does most of his sailing on a designer's drawing board. He helped pioneer the popular International 110 and 210 classes, developed the ultra-highspeed (50 m.p.h.) "Moppie" powerboat hull, designed the 5.5-meter Minotaur that Massachusetts Yachtsman George O'Day sailed to victory in the 1960 Olympics. Hunt showed up at the world championship to try out his latest 5.5, Chaje II, built by Finnish Shipbuilder Jussi Nemes. The two planned to race her together. But Nemes had to rush home at the last minute...
...June, after Zantzinger's phalanx of five topflight attorneys won a change of venue to a court in Hagerstown, a three-judge panel reduced the murder charge to manslaughter. Following a three-day trial, Zantzinger was found guilty...
...they could drink in the cultural delight and pellucid serenity of music. Since its inception in 1918, the Lewisohn concert series has fulfilled that function with zeal and occasional distinction. Of late, the masses seem to be flocking to the concrete-tiered stadium with somewhat less enthusiasm, and several topflight performers (Rubinstein, Isaac Stern and others) now shun it. For one thing, these and other artists are loath to face the New York critics under less than ideal conditions (too little rehearsal time, bad weather, bad acoustics). Concerts have dwindled from 65 in 1939 to 24 in 1962, attendance from...