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...Carnegie Hall, still playing by ear; Ingrid Bergman, with whom he had an affair, was said to have persuaded him to pursue formal music training. In 1947, his liberal politics led to printed charges of communist sympathies; after suing unsuccessfully for libel, he emigrated to Britain in the early 1950s...
Wilson began his career at Harvard as an assistant professor in the late 1950s and went on to propose and often prove many radical ideas, including showing that fire ants used pheromones as a form of communication...
DIED. MARTIN STERN JR., 84, architect who created the funky, quasi-futuristic Ships coffee shops in Los Angeles that exemplified the so-called Googie style popular in the 1950s and '60s; in Los Angeles. Despite heavy protest from preservationists, one of the three coffee shops was razed in 1984. Stern also played a key role in redefining the Las Vegas skyline; amid the low-slung hotels that pioneered the Strip, he built the 26-story Mint Hotel and the towering MGM Grand...
...myth machine chugs and rumbles, yet many old Kennedy hands deny that it exists--or that it ever did. "I've heard about this well-oiled machine for 40 years or more," says Myer Feldman, who first went to work for Senator John Kennedy in the late 1950s and remains close to the family. "Trust me, there's no such thing." Biographer Laurence Leamer (The Kennedy Men 1901-1963, due in October) sees the myth machine as a journalistic contrivance. "It's a useful way to sell books, to pretend that this thing exists," he says. "A writer gets...
DIED. FRANCES HORWICH, 93, educator and kindly bell-ringing host of the 1950s children's show Ding Dong School; in Chicago. During the half-hour program, which paved the way for Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood, "Miss Frances" taught arts and crafts, told stories and offered simple lessons. She won a Peabody Award...