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Novelist Granam Greene, 73, is entering the 50th year of a charmed career. Since publication of The Man Within in 1929, he has achieved critical and popular success. Among the English writers of Greene's generation, only Evelyn Waugh was more skillful at moving a narrative with brief, dramatic scenes. Yet Greene's contributions have had a wider influence. He administered to the spy thriller its most potent dose of modern disillusionment. As a Roman Catholic convert with an unblinking eye for guilt and evil, he gave the bulky 19th century Russian soul opera a fresh English tailoring...
...last meeting between them took place in March 1976 in the office of Publisher Alfred A. Knopf, 21 floors above Manhattan's East 50th Street. After a few minutes of uneasy conversation, Weinstein told Hiss: "When I began working on this book four years ago, I thought I would be able to demonstrate your innocence, but, unfortunately, I have to tell you that I cannot; that my assumption was wrong." Hiss shifted slightly, looked beyond Weinstein and said: "I'm not surprised." Later he added: "I've always known you were prejudiced against me." When the meeting ended, Weinstein told...
...50th anniversary of a high note, Andres Segovia's first U.S. tour, and, as part of the celebration, the classical guitarist played before a sellout audience of 3,200 at San Francisco's Masonic Auditorium. "This guitar refuses to stay in tune," he complained, and later he apologized: "Tonight my guitar was not my sweetheart. It was my enemy." Segovia, 84, lives in Madrid where he is working on his four-volume autobiography. which he likes to think of as four movements of a sonata...
...deft agreement, he concludes, may well become irrelevant: "With good luck, it may be found by grandmother in time to be read aloud at the 50th anniversary dinner." And if not, either partner, or both, can always sue. Naturally, with the help of a good lawyer...
...best reasons for visiting New York City. But homefolks as well as outlanders were among the 250 million people who have been its paying customers. Even New Yorkers who never went inside were regularly impressed by the enormously long lines of pilgrims waiting to get through the doors at 50th Street and the Avenue of the Americas. The Music Hall developed such drawing power that it seemed, as one bemused visitor put it. "unavoid able, like the Grand Canyon...