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When Claus von Billow appeared in Newport, R.I., last week to hear himself sentenced to 30 years in prison, he had a new lawyer on his team, a slight, bespectacled fellow with reddish brown, frizzy hair, seen by some as a cross between Woody Allen and Bozo the Clown. But Von Bülow knows that Alan Dershowitz, 43, is no joke. He got the Harvard law professor out of bed at 7 a.m. six weeks ago to ask him to handle his appeal. Why Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal...
...list of people in serious trouble. Among them are Nursing Home Operator Rabbi Bernard Bergman ("the meanest man in New York," suggested the Village Voice), Patricia Hearst, F. Lee Bailey, a few alleged Mafiosi, Soviet Dissident Anatoli Shcharansky and Deep Throat Star Harry Reems. Now, in addition to helping Von Bülow, Dershowitz is likely to take on the appeal of Jack Henry Abbott, the inmate-writer who was convicted of manslaughter after Author Norman Mailer and others had helped to get him paroled. The "devil's advocate" does not always win; in fact, he often loses...
...Wolf Von Eckardt...
...received the prestigious Pritzker prize: "There are many fine architects around who are more deserving of this than I. Who they are, I cannot think of at this moment." He will use the money to endow an Eero Saarinen Chair of Architecture at Yale University. -By Wolf Von Eckardt...
Still, the American conductor faces special problems. In Europe, an extensive network of regional opera companies in cities such as Aachen and Graz has traditionally provided training for young conductors. Many of the greatest Europeans-Herbert von Karajan and the late Karl Böhm-learned their art this way. To be sure, the U.S. has its regional and community orchestras, but historically they have not led to posts with major organizations. Further, European record companies-like Philips of Holland-are willing to give young countrymen a push. Edo de Waart, 40, now music director of the San Francisco Symphony...