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Where there's a will, there's a way-maybe. As New York Surrogate's Court untangled the tax and other claims on the $607,128 estate of the late Pepsi-Cola Chairman Alfred Steele, it appeared that there would be nothing left for his widow, Pepsi Prolocutrix (and Cinemactress) Joan Crawford, 52. Also on the Surrogate's docket last week: a claim by Socialite lleana Bulova, for the widow's share of the $10 million to $15 million left by the late Arde Bulova. Still the smashing-looking blonde she was at 18, when...
...that, Sciutti opened every season at La Piccola Scala (La Scala's intimate, 700-seat annex, specializing in rarely done or light operas). Elsewhere, she has shown her great versatility by singing everything from Mozart's Requiem (under Bruno Walter), to a TV performance of The Merry Widow, to Polly Peachum in Weill's Threepenny Opera. Soprano Sciutti is married to a former operatic bass from Seattle named Bob Wahoski, who long ago abandoned music to form his own European Travel Service, which ferries U.S. tourists through Europe in Cadillacs. If the tours sometimes seem eccentric, there...
...were made public, expanding Newspaper Publisher Samuel Newhouse (who has paid cash for most of his 14 dailies) offered to buy the Astor shares for considerably more than market value. Newhouse's offer was rejected, reportedly on the insistence of Vincent Astor's widow, Brooke Russell Marshall Astor, a member of both the Newsweek and Foundation boards. The Meredith Publishing Co. of Des Moines (Better Homes & Gardens) also made an approach, but after preliminary negotiations, withdrew without making an offer...
...when a recent secretary quit and got married, Alsop was heard to grouse: "I never lose people except to marriage-but don't get the idea I disapprove of marriage." Last week, demonstrating his approval, Alsop announced his engagement to wealthy Paris Socialite Susan Mary Jay Patten, 42, widow of International Banker William S. Patten. They will be married in the spring...
...Life. Originals are not necessarily good and adaptations are not necessarily bad. Some memorable plays have been drawn from books, notably Life with Father and Diary of Anne Frank. And particularly in the musical field, adaptations have long been the rule, from Die Fledermaus and The Merry Widow to Oklahoma! and My Fair Lady. As Critic Walter Kerr points out: "Adaptations, so long as they are good, still qualify as creative." And other defenders invariably argue that, after all, Shakespeare and Moliere were adapters too. The difference is that the masters took the bare frame of a plot and filled...