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...plagued the President all along, and now threatens to overshadow his truly impressive domestic record. He does slop over. He speaks-or preaches-with the accents of the Depression in an age of prosperity. His rustic reminiscences seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban electorate. At 58, Johnson is roughly midway in age between Bobby Kennedy and old Joe Kennedy, who last week turned 78-yet he somehow seems much closer in outlook to the older...
Pianist Dichter-who was born in Shanghai midway in his parents' flight from Poland in 1945-also turned on Tanglewood's audiences. He played the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1, a risky selection for any young pianist ever since Van Cliburn's powerful, sweeping version of it carried him to victory in the 1958 Moscow competition. But Dichter made the concerto his own, giving it unusual clarity and lightness...
Step up and take a look at the U.S.'s latest secret weapon. A hot missile? No, a cool cat-Earl ("Fatha") Hines, jazz pianist nonpareil. Fatha and his sextet were midway through a six-week cultural swing through Russia last week when the Soviets decided that he was just too culturally dangerous. Perhaps it was because Hines & Co. had been wowing S.R.O. audiences everywhere. In Kiev, 10,000 youngsters had packed the Sports Palace, and Hines stirred up a swirling, rhythmic turbulence that had the Russians snapping their fingers like Hollywood hippies...
Convinced as a young man that there was a future in variety stores whose prices were midway between those of the five and tens and the more expensive department stores, Yankee Grant opened his first 25? store in Lynn, Mass., in 1906, opened others so fast as the idea caught on that at 48 he made a major decision. Insisting that the growing chain needed an "organizer" at its head rather than a merchandiser like himself, Grant kicked himself upstairs to chairman, spent less and less time with the company, occupied himself with painting, charities, philosophical studies and world travel...
...comedians have to do to stretch out an idea that might comfortab'y fill four minutes of prime time. The body hustled hither and yon to take up the slack belongs to Elke Sommer, cast as a European sex queen who suffers an attack of artistic integrity midway through her umpteenth Hollywood bubble bath. Sensibly, she leaps out of the suds and heads straight for the north country to find peace...