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...both an extensive culture in the occult and a singular power of imagery. Yet too often he carelessly permits that power to corrupt him: he stands too long admiring his spectacular descriptions. Fowles's faults, however, are mostly the faults of inexperience. At 39, he is a novelistic tyro, a London schoolmaster who published The Collector at the relatively advanced age of 37. Considered as a second novel, The Magus is forgivable and even promising. It takes a considerable talent to make so much go so wrong...
...water, she is a skillful skier. On snow for the first time, Jacqueline Kennedy found that there's many a slip 'twixt slope and slalom. At Stowe, Vt., with Fellow Tyro Caroline and a watching clutch of Kennedys (John-John, Bobby and his family, Teddy and his wife, and Eunice Shriver), Duffer Jackie took her tumbles in good form. Her instructor, former Olympic Ski Coach Pepi Gabl, said diplomatically: "She was very good, but it's hard to say about a skier's ability the first time...
Getting a driver's license in Britain is an L of a job. Tyro motorists are forced by law to hang a learner's "L" on their car, are thus the object of gibes and sneers from every hot-rodder and truck driver on the road. None of this fazed Margaret Hunter, a spinster schoolteacher from Cheshire who at 65 finally decided that it was time for her to get her license...
...demanding role, his voice soared in steady flight above the stentorian heaviness of the Wagnerian orchestra: after the ardors of two long acts, he still had a great reservoir of lyric beauty left for the Prize Song that finishes the performance-and finishes the pretensions of a good many tyro tenors with it. A big (6 ft. 3 in.) and muscular South Dakotan, Thomas may well be the Heldentenor grand opera has awaited since Melchior...
Died. Elzey Roberts Sr., 70, former publisher of the folksy, feisty St. Louis Star-Times, an aloof office tyro who inherited the Star a year after graduating from Princeton in 1915, bought the Times in 1932, and, after battling Joseph Pulitzer's bigger Post-Dispatch for three decades, unpredictably sold out to Pulitzer in 1951; of a heart ailment; in St. Louis...