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...crammed but meticulously neat workroom of his modest, flower-banked home on a hill overlooking Hollywood's famed Sunset "Strip," Stravinsky is now writing an opera (with Poet W. H. Auden) fashioned from Hogarth's The Rake's Progress, and has just finished a Mass to "appeal directly to the spirit. Therefore, I sought very cold music, absolutely cold. No women's voices. They are by their very nature warm; they appeal to the senses...
Behind Two Doors. He usually eats breakfast on the sunny red-tiled loggia, practically naked ("not just in shorts, but often just wearing a handkerchief or something," says Vera). Then he dresses, plunges into his workroom, labors at a table that resembles an architect's and rivals Franklin Roosevelt's for gimcracks: rows of art gum erasers, each neatly labeled, trays of pens, pencils, different colors and kinds of inks. He has two pianos in the narrow room, a grand and an upright, and still does his composing at the piano...
There are two doors between his workroom and the light, airy, modern living room. "When both doors are closed, no one may enter," says Vera Stravinsky. "When only the workroom door itself is closed, I may enter, but only I." The room is soundproofed. Says Stravinsky: "I cannot work where I can be overheard...
...horse-trading among the voting delegations, Senior Editor Otto Fuerbringer and the entire National Affairs staff, Washington Bureau Chief James Shepley and his staff, and Chief of U.S. Correspondents David Hulburd, will be on hand. They will have all the mechanical conveniences that we can give them: a workroom in the basement of convention hall complete with teletype, television facilities,* and direct telephone communication with TIME'S New York and Washington offices, the press gallery on the convention floor, and our central headquarters in a local hotel...
...spends his winters, he lives in a large, cream-colored Spanish villa called "The Towers," which he bought last year for $160,000. Young ordinarily gets up at 6 a.m., goes for a quick dip in the surf, eats a quick breakfast, then quickly gets to work. His workroom is a second-floor bedroom facing the ocean. For a desk he uses two ordinary card tables, pulled together. Scorning ghostwriters, he writes all his own magazine articles, personally turns out copy...