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...Murchisons have enough money to live as they choose-and they choose to live well. John lives with his wife and four children in an immense English Tudor house on 200 acres outside Dallas, attended by squads of help and surrounded by a collection of abstract art. He drives to work in a Porsche 1600 (one of three family cars), but prefers to travel in a Beechcraft Twin Bonanza that he pilots himself. To house it, he built a private airport two miles from his home -and, finding enough plane-owning neighbors around him, inevitably turned the airstrip into...
Joining the ensemble, U.S. Pianist David Tudor clomped the keyboard for Transición II while a colleague plucked the strings of the open-topped grand piano, occasionally walloping them with a variety of drumsticks. Offstage, Argentine Composer Mauricio Kagel tape-recorded snatches of the performance, played them back while Tudor and friend banged on. After more such pyrotechnics, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire sounded almost romantic. At concert's end Keleman waited nervously for the commissar's reaction. Schoenberg, said Vucinic, was merely a "hybrid"-a musical petit bourgeois. "I prefer the outright revolutionary techniques," Keleman sighed...
...Castle of Otranto. All of this goes on in something that is not to be believed. The Kerr-Hilton, as Jean Kerr calls her home, is both the sum and summary of its contents, a brick and half-timber Tudor-Spanish architectural error on the edge of Long Island Sound. Like the Kerrs, it sits squarely in the suburbs, but its outlines are in fairyland. Built by a rich automotive inventor on the original foundations of the Larchmont Shore Club stables, it looks like the Castle of Otranto, reaching high with turrets and towers and a cupola. It also looks...
...People are funny about telephones," mused Oilman J. Paul Getty, the world's richest American, now an expatriate at Sutton Place, his million-dollar Tudor mansion outside London. "They'll come as guests and make long-distance calls all over the world. Even a call to London costs one and three [18?]." Pounding a tight fist on the table, he recalled the attitude of the late William Randolph Hearst. "He didn't like people to use his telephone without telling him about it. Anyone who did that, whether staff or guest, found his luggage packed." That...
Robert P. Bland '62, of Winthrop House and Chestnut Hill, recently named All-Ivy goalie, has picked up two more awards in the past two days. Monday Bland was voted the John Tudor Memorial Trophy as the Most Valuable Player of the season, and last night New England Sports-writers and coaches decided to start him on the All-New England first team...