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...health declining, Adams put aside the fife, the piccolo, the mouth organ and the penny whistle he invariably brought with him to social occasions, and entered the Lynwood Nursing Home in uptown Manhattan. There he died last week at 78, of arteriosclerosis. Some years earlier he had parodied Henley's Invictus...
...smoky recesses of a Manhattan cellar known as the Village Gate, Folk Singer Josh White was strumming Scarlet Ribbons and Saint James Infirmary. Uptown, at the 92nd Street Y.M.-Y.W.H.A., a group known as the Tichman Trio (clarinet, cello and piano) was threading its agile way through the chamber music of Beethoven and Brahms. Between the two -and a couple of blocks east of Carnegie Hall, where the Boston Symphony was unfolding Gustav Mahler's massive Symphony No. i-choir and soloists at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue were launching into Beethoven's stately Missa...
...Kong (based on a true story of a prizefighter who killed his mistress). In 1958 restless Singer Makeba applied for a passport, and after a year's wait she was on her way to London. From there she moved on to Manhattan's downtown Village Vanguard, then uptown to the Angel. The little girl from Prospect Township is making $750 a week, which could be eight years' rent for a native family in Johannesburg. RCA Victor is planning to record her songs. But Miriam wants to go home...
...Diane Baker), a wide-eyed kid from Colorado, gives her heart and other personal effects to a lowdown uptown type (Robert Evans) who promises to marry her. But on her wedding day, bridal bouquet in hand, she discovers that he is not driving her to the church but to the abortionist...
Sculptor Jacob Epstein, who died last week, was born 78 years ago into the brawling, colorful, self-contained world of Manhattan's Lower East Side. His Polish immigrant parents prospered and moved uptown, but young Epstein, by choice, swam with the rats in the East River, peered wistfully under the swinging doors of Bowery saloons, grew up belligerent and ravenous for experience. He wanted a life with size and shape, and that was what he forged for himself...