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...trademark, is now a bustling commercial furniture maker whose no-nonsense designs bear little kinship to bentwood. Somewhat surprised by all the excitement over vintage Thonet today, the firm nonetheless still "makes available" a modern version of the classic rocker, continues to manufacture the Vienna Chair (the familiar restaurant "upright") as well as the bentwood armchair that brought fame to the Thonet name and once moved Architect Le Corbusier to observe: "We believe that this chair, whose millions of representatives are used on the Continent and the two Americas, possesses nobility...
Just how the road work helps Celedonio Romero and his sons to play the guitar, no one in the family can explain. But it is all part of a pattern of dedicated practice that very clearly pays off. In Manhattan's Town Hall last week, upright, tuxedoed and wide awake, the Romeros demonstrated that they are indisputably one of the best guitar ensembles around. Celedonio, 45, opened with a generous sampling of the literature for the classical guitar-Galilei, Sanz, Bach, Sor, Albéniz. His sound was lushly colored, his touch always impeccable, his readings alive with...
...Stepping down partly to give someone else a turn and partly because his wife was wanting "more of him at home," the chipper former chief deputy to Clement Attlee was not without one final exhortation. "Love London." began the bobby's son who so fervently has. "Be meticulously upright, bold, sensible and socialist. Remember, we exist not to be masters of London nor even of our country. We exist to serve." Harvard University's newest chair-the .Winthrop Professorship of History, commemorating the family that produced the first Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony-went to a second...
...Word eventually came back that Khrushchev liked the notion, and Adzhubei duly presented himself at Hyannisport, along with Interpreter Georgi Bolshakov, editor of the Russian English-language magazine U.S.S.R. He brought along a doll for Caroline Kennedy and, for John Jr., another doll with weighted bottom that returned upright each time it was punched over. "This doll is like the Russian people," said Adzhubei. "You can keep pushing it down, but it will always come...
Last week, Kumasi police arrested some 200 "criminals," most of whom were coincidentally United Party members. Jails are reportedly so full that prisoners must sleep sitting upright...