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...Composer Igor Feodorovich Stravinsky works in intermittent bursts of energy in a soundproofed studio built into his Hollywood house. A neat and meticulous man, Stravinsky until recently liked to stand on his head and do morning calisthenics to keep in trim. With the aid of his second wife Vera, he watches his health with hypochondriacal care. After a glass of French wine he is likely to call, "Quick, Verochka, the proteins." His wife responds by bringing him crackers and cheese. Although he is deeply religious, Stravinsky seldom goes to the Russian Orthodox Church, once became indignant when the priest hearing...
...leaders, Jackson was blooded in the Mexican War. A West Pointer ('46, with budding Union General George Brinton McClellan and the Confederacy's George Edward Pickett, who led the charge at Gettysburg), Jackson served as an artillery officer under Winfield Scott on the epic march from Vera Cruz to the heights of Chapultepec. It was wily General Scott who taught him the military secret on which all his future success was based: scout, flank and pursue. He early showed another trait-a stubborn insistence on perfection-that was invaluable on the battlefield and infuriating off it. His career...
Under Peter Glenville's direction, the acting is not all of a piece, but Angela Lansbury as the blonde and Vera Pearce as the battle-ax catch perfectly the right emphatic, externalized manner. Bert Lahr's performance is harder to appraise: he is in a sense too good for French farce without always being entirely right for it. His clowning has always a certain human appeal; his zany genius is rooted in character and a little disrupted by plot. His own timing is flawless, but too personal for pacing flat, stylized farce. He doubtless gives the play something...
...Divorced. Alfried Felix Alwin Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach, 49, munitions-rich head of the German industrial dynasty; by Vera Krupp, 47, German-born U.S. citizen, onetime New York socialite and part owner of Las Vegas' New Frontier casino; after four years of marriage, no children; in a defaulted suit which allows her no claim to Krupp's $150 million holdings; in Las Vegas...
...America. The austere image of the Puritans of 1620 kneeling on the bare beach at Plymouth has obscured in the U.S. mind the more complicated grandeur of the equally devout men who, 100 years before, had kneeled at Mass on their beachhead near the place they came to call Vera Cruz. The notion persists that the Spanish conquest of the New World was a cruel and disgraceful business. Two new books may do something to destroy what Salvador de Madariaga has called "an article of faith" in the Anglo-Saxon world-"that Spain means cruelty and oppression...