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...slim, scholarly bachelor, Dunn has been living with music from the time he could stand up in his crib. To amuse him, his parents put a tall phonograph and a stack of symphony records within reach, and Baby Dunn would change the records. At the age of twelve, he was playing the organ at the regular services at the Third Lutheran Church in Baltimore; at 16, he was conducting the choir at the Episcopal Cathedral. He made his Carnegie Hall debut in 1960 as conductor of the 29-year-old choral society called the Cantata Singers, and his Philharmonic Hall...
Toys in the Attic. Playwright Lillian Hellman is like a small, scared Racine. Her lines flip into the mind like well-aimed darts. Her scenes stack like well-designed dishes. Unhappily, there is seldom much nourishment in them. Hellman speaks her mind brilliantly but opens her heart rarely. When the moment requires feeling, she too often offers irony; when the theme invites tragedy, she resorts to melodrama; when the problem demands experiment, she is careful to be commercial. She is exciting but not moving. She writes superbly about sex but badly about love. She creates grand characters but not real...
When they agreed, he hired Bette Davis, Robert Stack and Thomas Mitchell, and spent $4,000,000 overall. John Paul Jones, released in 1959, was not a great success, but it did make enough money to persuade Bronston's sponsors to give him another...
...girl," he said, "you can be my London secretary. We got secretaries all over. We're gonna have offices all over-London, Miami, Los Angeles. And when I get real big, I'll charge a dollar for my picture, and I'll send you a big stack, and you can keep 500 for every one you send out. Saaay, pretty girl! You got a record player, honey? Twist records, rock 'n' roll, Chubby Checker...
...world, and a considerable number of them will send along this week's cover requesting his autograph. This has long been the experience of TIME cover subjects, who find the number of autograph seekers growing. United Nations Ambassador Adlai Stevenson (Dec. 14) has already sent off a stack of autographed covers to such countries as Iran, West Germany, India and France, as well as to places all across the U.S., and has more on his desk awaiting his signature; Architect Minoru Yamasaki (Jan. 18) has heard from as far away as Rangoon and Kenya...