Word: yourselfer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Starve in Paris. Missouri-born and Harvard-educated, Thomson lived in Paris until World War II ("I preferred to starve where the food was good"), now divides his time between his Paris and New York bachelor apartments. He gave up reviewing, he says, because "after 14 years, I had reviewed...
∙TOYS: The toy industry rakes in 60% of its billion-dollar-plus business in the Christmas season, and small wonder: most of last year's toys are rubble by now, thanks partly to a child's built-in facility for destruction and partly to the built-in...
More in the bluegrass-old-timey-country line are John Duffey, Charley Waller, and The Country Gentlemen, who appear on two Folkways albums. Recommended is the one which contains "Drifting Too Far From the Shore." If you don't change your sinful ways after hearing it, you can console yourself...
Changing Faces. In Kazakhstan, key to Khrushchev's grandiose scheme to plant grain in the virgin lands southeast of the Urals, the visitor from Moscow angrily changed faces, interrupted a regional party leader who reported that the grain harvest had been "reduced" this year by shouting: "That would be...
Van Fleet's attack stirred Stevenson to rare asperity. "The charge you have repeated is totally false," wired Stevenson. "I will be obliged if you will correct your statement, and if there is any doubt about this in your mind I suggest that you check the facts yourself." Van...