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...JULIUS BAKER, 52, first flutist of the New York Philharmonic, last week played the intricate trills in Mendelssohn's oratorio Elijah as casually as another man might whistle for a taxi. A plump, dapper, matter-of-fact chap who looks and acts like a prosperous dentist, Baker is short on temperament but long on technique. He is the supreme mechanic of his instrument, and he produces what is surely the most glorious tone that ever came out of a flute: big, round, cool, white, radiant as a September moon...
...else fails, the irate skier has no choice but to play "Head them off at the pass." When a vacationer at Treasure Mountain Resort, Utah, discovered that his skis had been swiped while he was buying a Chap Stick, he hopped into his car, took a short cut to the spot where the ski road meets the highway. As each car stopped for the traffic, he counted the number of skis on top, paired them off with the passengers until he found a car with one too many pair of skis. He was back on the slopes for a final...
...rhymes with hep guy (the ch as in chap), means roughly that. It derives from dep trai, or handsome boy, which Vietnamese bar girls call all U.S. servicemen...
...members of the National Press Club and the Women's National Press Club. Meg and Tony did most of the asking. When a girl reporter told Meg that she worked for a national chain, the Princess caught on at once: "Dotted hither and yon, eh?" One chap answered Tony's query by saying he was retired. "I'm retired too," said Quondam Photographer Armstrong-Jones-though in fact he still moonlights camera assignments. Tony interrogated every press photographer he could buttonhole about equipment and technique, and lost no opportunity to mention a new book on British artists...
Jose Maria de Eça de Queiroz (1845-1900) presents a claim to fame that is also a patent of obscurity. He is the major novelist of a minor language: Portuguese. A scrawny chap with big buck teeth and a hook nose, Eça de Queiroz (pronounced Essa de Kay-rozh) spent most of his life as a Portuguese consul in London and Paris, fell under the spell of Flaubert and Zola, wrote a stack of realistic novels that appalled the provincial Portuguese and impressed some literate Parisians but missed fire in America. In 1962, however, a translation...