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...Wunderkind. While getting ready for his appearance this week on the Steve Allen Show, Ustinov (pronounced Youstinov) did a telecast for the Canadian Broadcasting Co., previewed a TV film on disarmament that he narrated for the U.N., squeezed in three interviews, a picture sitting, a lecture, a testimonial dinner, and a spot of home life in his East Side Manhattan apartment with his wife, Canadian Actress Suzanne Cloutier, and their two children. In between, he also cavorted through eight performances of his Ustinov-written Broadway comedy, Romanoff and Juliet, which was sagging at the box office when...
Behind the Glamourpuss. At 38, Leon ard Bernstein is not everybody, but very definitely Somebody ? a unique, perennial and very American Wunderkind. He is perfectly cast for the role. His lion head, swept with a sensuously flowing mane of black hair that in recent years has been greying at the temples, makes him seem a big man, even though he is stocky and only 5 ft. 8½ in. tall. The jaw is powerful, the skin rough and swart, the profile jutting and rudely masculine, the lips sensitively curved and humorous. At a glance from Bernstein, men recognize an extraordinary...
...company will hang on to American's name "for future use." As part of his drastic, long-range overhaul, President Smith, 47, a onetime journalistic wunderkind on the San Francisco Chronicle, wants to start a newsmagazine. Smith already has added a phonograph-record division to Crowell-Collier, is shopping for a daily newspaper and in the last two months has bought six radio and four TV stations across the U.S., including a pair in Honolulu. Under his three-year regime, the company's profitable book division ( Collier's Encyclopedia, the Harvard Classics) is expected to double...
...long after, he had a vision of life as an arrow, hurtling upwards into the blue; and not long after that, he had another in which the arrow split lengthwise. One half, as the metaphysical wunderkind interpreted it, was action, the other contemplation...
...Berlin-born Composer Lukas Foss first came to the U.S. 13 years ago, he used to worry about the European flavor of his music. Once he even went so far as to say: "I want to be considered an American composer ... one of the boys." At 27, blue-eyed Wunderkind Foss takes a little easier view of the matter. "Now," says he, "I set a Sandburg poem to music or a story by Mark Twain without thinking of being an American...