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...Chinese wine maker she met in Hong Kong even sent two magnums of Dragon, Tiger & Phoenix, vintage '58, whose rare bouquet is obtained by steeping 200 snakes, five civets and ten storks in a vat of rice wine. Administered daily, explained its maker, D.T. & P. will keep Mr. and Mrs. Ogilvy in good health, make their marriage happy and, for good measure, preserve them from rheumatism. Poet Laureate John Masefield put it more elegantly, without wine...
...Dragon Lady. And hardly even a plot. U.S. Ambassador Marlon Brando-please do not laugh; this is a serious, Eastman Color picture-arrives at his post in South Sarkhan (read South Viet Nam) and hustles off to see an old friend, a fellow he knew in the resistance who has now become a leading neutralist...
...count on a high place in local society, and, unless he is careful, cuddling up with the dragons and dragon ladies who run so many orchestras can easily do in his music while it velvets his life. In Seattle, Conductor Milton Katims has gently urged his salary up to $37,500 a year, about as much as the mayor and the school superintendent earn together, and nearly 20 times the pay of the men who fill the back chairs of his orchestra. In San Francisco, conductors come and go at the whim of J. D. Zellerbach and his fearful board...
...onetime Trumpeter James Caesar Petrillo, 70, put down the baton as $26,000-a-year leader of the "100% organized" Chicago Local 10 of the American Federation of Musicians, a podium he had occupied for 40 stormy years. Near the end of his 45-minute farewell, the old union dragon who lost his job by a narrow 95 votes in a recent election glanced up at a portrait of himself on the wall, sniffed tentatively and dissolved into tears on the ever-ready shoulder of Toastmaster George Jessel. Jessel, whose tear threshold is lower still, joined sympathetically in the sobs...
...most silent but most dangerous man of 1962 remains Mao Tse-tung. His Red Dragon is spreading its menace all over Asia...