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Early Marriage. Schaub called as a witness Coppolino's former mistress, Marjorie Farber, 53, but was prevented by a bench ruling from questioning her about the 1963 death of her husband, retired Army Colonel William Farber. In the New Jersey murder trial, the shapely widow had told a weird story of being hypnotized by Coppolino and standing helplessly aside while he smothered Farber with a pillow. Though it was Mrs. Farber who had aroused police suspicions against Coppolino after he spurned her for wealthy Divorcee Mary Gibson, 39, whom he married six weeks after Carmela's death...
Pollock's fellow artists, however, still view his work with admiration. Over 400 of them turned up to survey the 172 paintings and drawings assembled by Curator William S. Lieberman with the cooperation of Pollock's widow, Painter Lee Krasner. At the party before the openings, both old friends and those who had never met Pollock were equally enthusiastic. Jasper Johns was particularly taken with the extraordinary range and variety of the works in the exhibition, which begins with Pollock's earliest, and remarkably mediocre, landscapes, reflecting the influence of his first mentor, Thomas Hart Benton, continues...
...WIDOW-MAKER by James Jones. 618 pages. Delacorfe...
...basis of the story was a lengthy interview she gave to W.J.T. Editor Frank Conniff and Columnist Bob Considine. Stretching the interview over three successive days, the paper made the most of what it described as its "dialogue" with the "beauty known as Jacqueline, the sprite called Jackie, widow of a slain President, loving mother of his daughter...
...Mozart Requiem is a redoubtable piece of music, largely because it is not all Mozart's. Left unfinished at his death, the Requiem was completed by one Sussmayr on commission from Mozart's widow. Only the Requiem aeternam and the Kyrie are pure Mozart, while the rest was either reconstructed from hs sketches or fabricated totally anew. As a result, many musicians in recent years have not considered the work worth performing...