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...diem. Dick Gustafson, a former chemist, derives a nearly six-figure income from trade shows. "It's no trick," he insists. "For example, I link steel rings together at a show to demonstrate how a chemist will link molecules together to make fibers for, say, Du Pont. Sometimes I float my wife in the air to emphasize the lightness of a fabric." Conjurer Milbourne Christopher, historian of the art, has floated a cake of soap in mid-air for Procter & Gamble, and produced a sales manager out of an empty box for American Motors...
Pierre S. du Pont IV, 39, whose family founded the chemical company that has the tallest industrial smokestacks in Delaware, won his seat in Congress in 1970 by campaigning for stricter controls on industrial pollution. A Republican whose victory margins have broken records, "Pete" du Pont has been working hard to link his name with clean politics as well as clean air. He rejects contributions in excess of $100 from anyone, including himself, has voluntarily disclosed his net worth ($2.5 million), and has been an outspoken critic of the Administration on Watergate. His rating from the choosy League of Women...
...apparent heart attack; in Geneva. Just after World War I, Milhaud became a member of Les Six, an informal group of irreverent young composers. His racy treatment of Brazilian popular songs, Le Boeuf sur le Toit, caused an uproar at its Paris première. La Création du Monde, the 1923 ballet that is perhaps his masterpiece, was the first major classical composition effectively to incorporate elements of jazz. Of Provencal Jewish lineage, Milhaud fled the Nazis in 1940. Throughout World War II he taught at Mills College in Oakland, Calif., then shuttled between Paris and Mills until...
Paris has been called la ville mere du scandale-the mother city of scandal. Few scandals seemed better spiced for its Gallic taste than the one that has become known as "the Daniélou affair...
...favorites of 19th century French opera. Set in 1 5th century Switzerland, the story concerns the persecution of Eleazar, a Jewish goldsmith, and his foster daughter Rachel. Before his execution, Eleazar gets to sing one of the tenderest arias in tenor literature, Rachel, quand du Seigneur. Caruso and Martinelli sang the role, and Richard Tucker has been begging for years to sing it at the Met. So far, he has had to settle for a staged performance in New Orleans last October and two concert versions. While the opera may not be rich enough to justify the cost...