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Josephine Baker parlayed that talent into a strange career. As Biographer Lynn Haney recounts, Baker badgered her way onto Broadway when she was 16, but it was in Paris three years later that she found true recognition. As in a '30s melodrama, Baker's professional life roared on while the person behind the spangles was racked with insecurity. The crucial difference between Baker and her Hollywood contemporaries was that the star was black, and consequently was barred from many roles in her native land...
Harvard's role in the whole affair became a little clearer when, at the banquet, Stephen Swid, vice-chairman of GFL/Knoll, presented the first GFL/Knoll Creative Leadership Award to Marcel Breuer, a designer and architect who taught at Harvard in the '30s and '40s. Illness prevented Breuer--celebrated for the tubular steel chair that bears his name--from attending the presentation...
...Woolworth Heiress Barbara Hutton and Actresses Virginia Cherrill, Betsy Drake and Dyan Cannon-all ended in divorce. Last week it was revealed that the Sultan of Suave, who is now a director of Fabergé, had taken No. 5. She is Barbara Harris, a stunning brunette in her early 30s. The Fabergent reportedly met his fabulady at a London hotel, where she worked as a publicist. Grant, 77, admitted that they had been married "for quite some time," but wouldn't say just how long...
...they do not obscure some wonderful and what you might like to call historical pieces. A dissection of "Roots" and "Roots II" or his analysis of the high theatrics of "Sixty Minutes"--with all its supposedly real life drama as Rather hones in on all the world like a '30s prosecutor--manage to put television's strange short-term memory into some sort of historical perspective. The hype and the emotions television elicits from its unwitting audience seem all the more insidious. He even includes in this volume a brilliant piece. "What We Do in the Dark," in which television...
...Testament follows Paltiel through a roiled landscape: Berlin and Paris in the '30s, party betrayals during the Spanish Civil War, a mission to Palestine, back to Russia where he becomes a gravedigger in the last days...