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Norwegian-born Erik Bergaust has had a bent for missiles since the age of twelve when he blew up his parents' apartment in an Oslo suburb with black powder rocket propellant. After serving in the Norwegian underground during World War II. Bergaust in 1946 became aviation editor of an Oslo newspaper. He joined Parrish's publications in 1956, quickly won a reputation for pro-Army bias and for exclusives on advanced military developments. To Publisher Parrish, Bergaust's resignation was no surprise. Said Parrish: "Mr. Bergaust went into orbit about the time of Sputnik...
Nobody knew much about Alexander L. Guterma when he arrived in Wall Street five years ago. But he quickly showed himself such an expert in frenzied finance that he got control of F. L. Jacobs Co. (auto parts maker), Bon Ami Co. (scouring powder), Hal Roach Studios (Gale Storm Show), and the Mutual Broadcasting System. Last December Guterma's empire began to crumble...
Stowe has excellent conditions with three inches of new powder, while Big Bromley has an inch of powder with good to excellent conditions. Sugarbush Valley, Smugglers Notch, and Franconia (Mittersill) also offer premium skiing conditions. At North Conway, Mt. Sunapee, and Wildcat the outlook ranges from good to excellent...
...sense, and he cannot read the music he composes and sings. But last year his song Volare (To Fly) was the world's biggest hit, with 7,000,000 records sold, including 2,000,000 for Decca Records in the U.S. alone. Last week Modugno, glowing in a powder-blue tuxedo, weepily twanged his latest effort, Piove (It's Raining), at the annual San Remo Song Festival, walked off with the festival prize-no cash, but an Oscar-sized honor in a crooner-crazed land. This week Piove, a mawkish tale about lovers parting at a train station...
Holly Golightly, the charming corn-pone geisha who sheds everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion...