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...themselves on carpets, Calder sculptures and on one memorable occasion, Jacqueline Kennedy. Dwight D. Eisenhower's Weimaraner infuriated her short-tempered master by chasing his golf balls. John F. Kennedy soothed himself during the Cuban missile crisis by taking time out to pet his daughter Caroline's Welsh terrier Charlie. Dog-lovingest President: Lyndon B. Johnson, who allowed one of his dogs to sleep in his bed and adored a white collie named Blanco, despite the fact that he was so vicious he had to be kept tranquilized. L.B.J. was so distraught over the death of Old Beagle...
Focusing on a stock scandal perpetrated by Houston promoter Frank Sharp that proved to involve Gov Preston Smith Speaker of the Texas House Gus Mutscher. Houston mayor Louis Welsh former state attorney general Waggoner Carr and even NASA astronaut James A Lovell Katz cracks the golden egg of the Texas state capitol for a broad look at the kind of "business" that state officials are really doing under that dome...
...name is Gordon Mills, but it might as well be Midas. In the mid-1960s he transformed a pigtailed Welsh rock belter, Tommy Scott, into the tuxedoed dandy whom the international pop world now knows as Tom Jones (the nom de chanson capitalized on the then-popular movie). Two years later Mills took a nondescript provincial singer, Gerry Dorsey, whimsically tagged him with the name of a 19th century German composer and made Engelbert Humperdinck almost as big a nightclub, TV and recording star as Jones. The musical empire that Mills has built largely on the careers of those...
...cardinals, white abbots, Latin-spouting priests, heretics and jesters parade in and out of stylized throne rooms and courtrooms while Taverner's destiny is worked out. Allegorical characters such as Joking Jesus, a Pope/Antichrist and Jester/Death trail them in symbolic profusion. Director Michael Geliot (on loan from the Welsh National Opera) and Designer Ralph Koltai have built their set around a huge tower of seesaw platforms on which the merits-and fates-of Taverner and his antagonists are literally and figuratively weighed in the balance...
Reading International (47 Brattle St.) is okay, its chief attraction being its many foreign periodicals. But for foreign language scholars, Schoenhof's (1280 Mass Ave) is the greatest boon. The store specializes in books of any language, from Amharic to Welsh. Anything you want that they don't have in stock, they will...