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...Soviet Union, which I greet," said Stravinsky in Russian. "It is a great joy." After a tender meeting with a niece he had known only through an exchange of letters, Stravinsky was helped into a limousine and whisked in a motorcade to his hotel, where, fortified with vodka and caviar, he worked over the scores for three concerts with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, which will play excerpts from his modernistic The Fire Bird and Petmshka...
When he stood, everyone stood. When he sat, cross-legged like a giant Buddha on the floor, all eyes in the luxurious Paris apartment turned toward him. Through the whole long evening, he laughed, talked, puffed on a cigar, listened to the gypsy singers, and downed endless jiggers of vodka. At 3 in the morning, when two or three couples started for the door, he bellowed: "You're not leaving already, my friends. The night is young. Play, gypsies; play, play, play!" The guests stayed, the gypsies played. Once again, and at long last, Orson Welles was front...
...Party Chairman gloated: "They got the word." Finally lunch on the patio-caviar and pel'meni, a kind of Iron Curtain ravioli, flushed down with vodka, champagne and several Georgian wines-and, for hours after, a long conversation in which Khrushchev did most of the talking. The Soviet Premier enjoyed himself so hugely that he decided to do it again the following day and bring Mrs. Khrushchev and the kids, i.e., Son Sergei, Adzhubei and his wife Rada. Salinger had to pass up a planned engagement with Russian newsmen in Moscow...
...public. The pioneer was not one of Madison Avenue's Goliaths but Papert, Koenig, Lois, Inc., a fast-rising newcomer that in four years of existence has boosted its annual billings from $69,000 to $5,900,000 on accounts ranging from Exquisite Form bras to Wolfschmidt vodka...