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...attractively gifted singer, her husky, throbbing contralto giving off a languor that occasionally approaches drowsiness, her guitar unexceptional but sufficient. Though a newcomer to solo circles, Bobbie is clearly a pro. Her first song, composed at the age of seven, was picked out on the family's upright piano, and had to do with her English shepherd, Sergeant. Later came studies at the Los Angeles Conservatory and U.C.L.A., but not for long. Since the age of 17, Bobbie has supported herself in assorted musical jobs, working up by the end of last year to a $450-a-week...
Typically, Sears was interested in low-priced pianos; its grands sold for $245 and uprights for $150. Two brothers, William and Henry Heller, whose father was one of Winter's founders, were convinced that the real future lay in high-quality, high-priced models. They bought back the piano interest from Sears in 1941 for a mere $180,000 and merged with Aeolian American Piano Co., long a leader in the quality field. Today prices range from a high of $7,250 for an ebony Mason & Hamlin concert grand to a low of about...
...nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...
Moving in with the second wave of attacking troops, Cathy dodged machine-gun fire, clicked off frame after frame as she and the men scurried up the hill. She stopped long enough to record one particularly poignant sequence-a corpsman bending to help a wounded buddy, jerking upright in anguish when the man died, and plunging away, yelling "I'll kill them! I'll kill them!" At the summit she flopped into a bomb crater, kept on aiming her camera. At 22, Cathy is used to such scenes. She spends more time at the front-three weeks...
Chimpanzees were thought to lack the ability to aim. But the attacking chimps threw everything they could pick up with great accuracy. Several apes broke branches off nearby trees, stripped off twigs and leaves, and attacked the leopard with great vigor, running upright and swinging their clubs over their shoulders. Throughout the 20-minute attack, they encouraged each other with embraces and even by shaking hands. When the zoologists repeated their experiment with a different group of rain forest chimps, however, the forest-dwelling animals loped excitedly about on all fours and made threatening noises, but demonstrated no signs...