Word: vias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...work of Jacques Ibert, distinguished French composer (Ports of Call) and former manager of the Paris Opéra. "Here intrigues are woven and romance prevails," proclaims a voice which seems to come from the heart of the chateau itself (it is the recorded voice of Charles Boyer, via 28 loudspeakers, speaking a text by André Maurois). "Here all France is assembled; not only the court, but also Racine, Boileau, Molière [and] ambassadors from all over the world, who have come to see the greatest King on earth...
Gracie Was a Lady. She met Harry Sinclair Lewis after he had come to Manhattan from his native Sauk Center, Minn., via Yale. It happened in 1912 when young Hal-his friends called him "Red" for his thin, gingerish thatch-saw a lady across a tearoom. It was Grace Hegger, daughter of a Catholic German-American art dealer. She had golden hair, a job on Vogue, and she brought out the romantic in Hal, who wrote her some of the goofiest poetry boy ever wrote girl...
...years ago, Bronx-born Songstress Gormé had reached the eminent position of export manager for a theatrical-equipment company, reached TV via dance-band and nightclub jobs. On TV she has sung while sitting on a bough overhanging the Niagara River hard by the falls, and with a high wind snatching the notes from her throat atop the RCA Building. Last winter, just before an 8 o'clock TV rehearsal, a call came: Would she appear on the 9:30 show at the Copacabana that night? The regular star, Billy Daniels, had been accused of shooting somebody...
India, despite its ringing endorsement of Egyptian sovereignty, finds itself for the first time face to face with a piece of "anticolonialism" that could hurt it as sorely as it could hurt the powers west of Suez. Since most of India's trade with Europe moves via Suez, any interference with canal traffic or an increase in canal rates would play hob with India's new five-year plan. Even more disturbing to India is the prospect that if Nasser were to fall, Egypt (and the canal) might fall into the hands of an orthodox Moslem government that...
...hammer out the rudiments of instrumental jazz. Washington jazz tended to strings-pianos, banjos, violins-but it had the same ancestry: the sophisticated rhythms of African drums, which later took on a more succinct and sensuous character as they drifted through the Caribbean islands, gradually infiltrated the U.S. via New Orleans and the East Coast. The East Coast variety, with its own flavors added, eventually became the ragtime of Duke's childhood...