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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Alcestis was one more contribution to the Graham cycle of Greek drama that already includes Night Journey (Jocasta), Cave of the Heart (Medea) and Clytemnestra. Around the central props-a massive, grey stone wheel and tower-the 27-minute work unfolded in episodes of tortured simplicity. Alcestis. danced by Martha Graham, writhes on a ramp with King Admetus in a series of languorous embraces; Thanatos (Death) struggles with Alcestis in a sinuously elegant dance; the hand of Hercules, bearing a single white lily, is suddenly thrust from the center of the wheel, symbolizing the rebirth of life...
Your kindly and loving obit for Franklin P. Adams [April 4] evoked long-forgotten memories of his "Conning Tower" columns, which, secreted among the pages of William Wordsworth's output, helped a desperate group of college juniors get through an uninspired course in romantic poetry...
...Aluli: "I figured land was so scarce, why not subdivide the air?" His first 46-unit co-op apartment sold out seven hours after he advertised it, and he had enough investors left to finance a second 32-apartment coop. He went on to build the 200-room Oahuan Tower, the 60-room null and the 650-room Kalia off Waikiki Beach. His most ambitious project, the Tradewinds, is scheduled to become a $15 million, ten-building hotel complex with 1 ,000 apartments...
EUROPE'S TALLEST HOTEL will be built in London by Conrad N. Hilton and British Financier Charles Clore (TIME, June 15). The 530-room London Hilton will tower 27 stories above Mayfair, cost $17 million, open...
...Beats Working, Strong Cigars and Lovely Women), who published his first work-a poem on Jack Dempsey and Babe Ruth (" . . . both sultans of swat; one hits where other people are, the other where they're not")-when he was eleven, in Columnist Franklin P. Adams' "Conning Tower"; of a heart attack, while writing about F.P.A.'s death (see PRESS) ; in Manhattan...