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Diana Menuhin was not exaggerating. More like an Olympic sprinter in training than a 48-year-old violin virtuoso on tour, Yehudi Menuhin stays religiously in trim with yoga and health foods. Not that he is in any danger of getting fat. The busiest, fastest-moving musician on the international festival circuit, Menuhin has performed in some 50 concerts from Tel Aviv to Glasgow this summer, has also fulfilled a dizzying round of recording, teaching and conducting engagements. The crescendo comes each year in June and August, when Menuhin presides over two top-notch festivals, at Gstaad in Switzerland, which...
...Samuel Taylor's Beekman Place, French Actor Fernand Gravet plays a violin virtuoso with a string of women (Madeleine Carroll, Arlene Francis, Melinda Dillon). Britain's Terence Stamp comes to Broadway as Alfie, a Jack-of-all-trades with Jill troubles. Onetime Moppet Margaret O'Brien will star in One in a Row, about an author who writes a bestseller and decides to quit while he is ahead. Jean Kerr, who has been far ahead since Mary, Mary, has completed Poor Richard, a play about a visiting British poet which was originally due last year...
Coveralls, No Show. But Pucci, who had started it all, was not about to yield the field. First to be bold, last to be undone by fellows who had followed the leader and left him behind, Pucci could only retreat or fight. In a virtuoso display of fashion theatrics, he chose to do both, for a starter wrapped two pretty Negro mannequins in hoods and long silk burnooses that whipped off, without warning, to show patches of scanty bikinis underneath...
...summer landscape as the mosquito. Here is a recital (Flop-Eared Mule, Nine Hundred Miles, Goodbye Old Booze) in various styles by four experts. On the sleeve, there is a written exposition for beginning listeners of plain and fancy picking: frailing, up-picking, two-finger, three-finger, and the virtuoso Scruggs style...
...since December 1961. At a working lunch, the VIPs brought swimming trunks to the Navy Officers' Club on shimmering Keehi Lagoon, left their "classified" folders on the tables while they enjoyed a quick dip. Lieut. General William Westmoreland, the newly designated U.S. military chief in Saigon, gave a virtuoso display on one water ski. During off-hours, Rusk and McNamara relaxed at Felt's flower-decked Makalapa Guest House, while Lodge could be seen sipping coffee in splendid isolation at Waikiki Beach's Royal Hawaiian Hotel...