The Kaufman Chronicle of a Wit and World
Leonard Lyons gathers anecdotes about George Kaufman, recalling premieres in New York and Bucks County, dinner talk with Booth Tarkington and Moss Hart, stage door quips, Einstein satire, bridge games with Somerset Maugham and Sam Goldwyn, and a White House dinner with Eleanor Roosevelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Howard Teichman
George
Kaufman
Kaufman ‘Lyons
Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Bucks County
Moss Hart
White House
Eleanor Roosevelt
Menuhin appeals for openness in Moscow congress
Yehudi Menuhin, American violinist and International Music Council chair, urged open mindedness and trust in a Moscow speech to about 30 nations at the seventh International Music Congress. He called for freer immigration, cited Solzhenitsyn and Rostropovich, and urged applying music’s discipline to serve mankind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bausman
Moscow
Yehudi Menuhin
International Music Council
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
Menuhin
Tass
Congress
Mstislav Rostropovich
Solzhenitsyn
Soviet Union
Also Mentioned on This Page
Leonard Lyons
Edna Ferber
Kaufmans
Ann
Moss
Prof
Albert Einstein
Einstein
Hollywood
Goldie
Finstein
Cavendish
Somerset Maugham
Maugham
Willie
Mrs. Roosevelt
Sam Goldwyn
California
Goldwyn
Herman Mankiewicz
Mankiewicz
Mank
the Country Clan
Prairie Moon
Prairieburg
Iowa
Don Flack and
His
Westerners
Hwy
W & West Post Rd
Larry Bales
Poor House Lounge
Third Ave
Elway Gardens
the Fire & Ice
Stanwood
Farah
the Three
OF US
Barb
George Farah
Michael J. Trio
Austin & Garf
Ave. N.W
Cedar Rapids
Preauae
The
Young Raiders
Lawrence
Kansas
Swisher,owa
Joe Utterback
Bob Oettinger
Jim Oettinger
Maine
Tvamous
1St Ave
Marion
7Th Ave
East Side
Piccadilly Tavern
Tony
Roosevelt Motor Hotel
West
United States
Rose Mar
Aires
MR. Harmonica
Denny Long
Modern Country & Western
Pagoda Supper Club
Amana
Rose Russ
Stan Gunn
Ndersfeld
Bob Owens
First Avenue
40Th Street East
Charlies
Capitol
Oleta
Russ Turner
Supper Club
Stan Kenton
Springville High School
Creative World, Inc
P.O
Los Angeles
Calif
Vargasons
Glenn’s Llama
K Mart East
Bob Miller
Highway 218
Iowa City
Dial
Shawna
St. Clair
Lie
First
Charlie Brown
U.S
Pat
United Feature Syndicate, Inc
Arthur Whitelaw
Gene Persson
COE
Kirkwood
COE College
Sinclair
Armstrong’s
Gage Union
Kirkwood Community College
Colonel Sanders Kentu
1St Avenue
Times Theatre
Edgewood
30 West
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