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...quarter '64 earnings ($1,041,000) were almost twice as high as in the same period last year. Weltner expects further improvement, thanks to such current successes as Becket and Seven Days in May. A small, freckled man who resembles neither a movie mogul nor a matinee idol, Welt ier is a chemist by training who begat, in the darkroom during the early '20s. How did he reach the summit of Paramount's star-ringed mountain? Says Weltner, with a grin: "Longevity, that...
West German correspondents in Washington have found Johnson both boring and unfathomable. "He is so 100% American and so Texan," said one, "that we simply cannot understand him." Hamburg's Die Welt, a newspaper with national circulation, recently weighed Johnson on the scales of statesmanship and found him wanting: "Admittedly the new President is no radiant political figure. That role has been taken over by De Gaulle...
Beauty Bounty. Nor is the change only skin-or even bikini-deep. Says Chief Editor F. W. Koebner of Elegante Welt, Germany's leading fashion and society magazine: "The breakup and reorganization of German society has given the individual German girl the material and psychological means to become beautiful." She has rejected her parents' ideals and escaped the self-sufficient autocracy that used to be family life in Germany. By contrast with her insular parents, she is worldly, well-traveled, avid for the fads and fashions of other nations. She has a new sense of identity and self...
...cordovan shoe glows red and blue along its welt, the arches of bare feet purple in the corrosive illumination that gives simple poses a seductive superreality. His images are lush with cosmetic painterliness; his white backgrounds are impastos of frosting...
Still, very little of his work found its way into the standard orchestral repertory. Even such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the Philharmonic Concerto, the symphony Harmonie der Welt, and the requiem are rarely heard. Though his music is easily accessible to modern audiences, it is admired mainly by musicians, who hear in it the evidence of a lofty musicianship that is not often encountered in modern composers...