Word: v
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DUBLIN: A PORTRAIT, by V. S. Pritchett. Photographs by Evelyn Hofer. The faces, facades and streetscapes of Dublin, hauntingly captured in poetic pictures and luminous prose...
Scant days remained before his concert at the St.-Tropez Festival, and Pianist Byron Janis, 39, was staring straight into the jaws of une véritable débâcle. His new white dinner jacket, a double-breasted poem in paper limned especially for him by Haute Couturier Pierre Cardin, had proved a grabber in the armpits. "Rush me another," pled the pianist. "I have to move my arms...
...that makes everything from Sheaffer fountain pens to Bell helicopters, houses his entire headquarters in 1½ floors of a small office building in downtown Providence. So decentralized is Dallas' fast-growing Ling-Temco-Vought that it sets up its subsidiaries in seven publicly owned (but L-T-V-controlled) companies. In that way, explains L-T-V President James J. Ling, each company is "visible to the public and must be viable and capable of standing...
...arrival of this year's collection followed the usual giddy ten-day whirl from fashion house to fashion house in Paris in late July and early August. From headquarters at the swanky Hotel Georges V, Alexander's buying delegation stepped out each morning for buying appointments at 7:30, then rushed to catch the shows, and often worked late into the night studying color samples. There is an elaborate air of secrecy surrounding the whole thing. Ohrbach's buyers, for example, made a point of staying at the less conspicuous Elysee-Parc Hotel, because...
...hero, Gog, is a giant washed ashore naked on the Scottish coast near Edinburgh just after V-E day. Gog has no memory, and the only clues to his identity are tattoos on the back of his left and right hands reading Gog and Magog-the names of two giant wooden figures in the City of London.* The novel, fable or parable tells the story of Gog's pilgrimage from Edinburgh to London in quest of himself...