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...Highlight of the vacation was Mamie Eisenhower's 63rd birthday, celebrated at week's end at a dinner party in "Mamie's cottage" on the Augusta National's grounds. Dressed in a brown silk print with a fitted bodice, the First Lady happily posed for a birthday picture, recalled the time six years ago at Augusta when Grandson David ("just a little boy then") had "gathered up all the blown flashbulbs" after photographers left. Golfer Ike posed impatiently. "Looks as if it's going to rain," he grumped, turned on his heel and strode away...
...highlight the contributions of Bahia to Brazilian culture, some 1,000 objects, ranging from gaily painted gourds and handsomely decorated clay pots to ritual drums (named rum, rumpi and lé) and the ornate paraphernalia of the colorful candomble religious dances brought over from Africa, have been put on exhibition at São Paulo's Bienal. More than 40,000 visitors throng the exhibition weekly; visiting critics, discovering a new folk art they never knew existed, have told Brazilians: "This is your great...
...Princeton Tigertones and Jack Carleton's Band highlight the Lowell "Orange Ball." Quincy's "Tiger Tail Swing" has the Princeton Tigertones, the Freddy Guerra Orchestra, and folk-singing...
Today at the Stadium the Harvard University Band will celebrate its 40th anniversary with a gigantic musical reunion, a highlight of its happy, humorous, and impressive history. Many of the men who will play in the almost 400-piece reunion band are those who have been responsible for establishing the Band's unique position in the University community and its fame throughout the country. Although beset by war years, financial worries, rival school's cheering sections, and the Dean's Office, the group has always in its 40 years managed to entertain its audiences and have a good time doing...
...song," she says, "deals with a person. I have to get an image of that person and convey that image to everyone else. I have to find the highlight in the song and work up to it-to find the motive for the song and personalize it for each listener." The fool's gold from the songwriters' mines may seldom merit such meticulous attention, but the measure of Felicia's talent is the astonished pleasure of her fans. When dedicated Method Actors Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward caught her at the Bon Soir this summer, they delivered...