The many guises of excellence

An unfinished portrait / Ferdinand E. Marcos

Disturber of the peace / Patrick Peyton

The autocrat of the dinner table / Lin Yutang

Obsessive hobby / F. Resurreccion Hidalgo

Twilight in prison / Mochtar Lubis

A peso to collect / Francisco Ortigas, Jr.

No overnight feat / Cesar Bengzon

Three buzzes from the postman / Hilaria Labog

Tradition and dynamic change / Serafin Quiason

Formula of sanity / Francis Parisi

Playwright and patriot / Claro M. Recto

Heaven on earth / Sr. Redempta

Radically different / Claudio Teehankee

India and beyond / Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

The passing of a Titan / Hubertus Kuhne

Quiet achiever / Delfin Jaranilla

The intellectual as cynic / I.P. Soliongco

Off-the-sari speeches

Supremely edifying / Helen Keller

Another unfinished portrait / Imelda Romualdez Marcos

The Filipino artist on guard

The ambivalent Maverick / Federico Elizalde

Her pyrrhic victory / Leonor Orosa Goquingco

Mighty mite of music / Oscar Yatco

The total pianist / Benjamin Tupas

Our very own Prima Donna / Evelyn Mandac

Letters from an anguished heart / Maniya Barredo

Intimations of world fame / Cecile Licad

The visiting artist off-guard

Instant stradivarius / Yehudi Menuhin

Nothing like a dame / Margot Fonteyn

Nightly neurosis / Helen Hayes

The contralto and we

Enigmatic smiles / The Kogans

A sentimental boy at heart / Van Cliburn

Close-up of a super diva

Quotable quotes / Martha Graham

Pops and otherwise / Arthur Fiedler

Reams of private messages / Montserrat Caballe

Essentially a humanist / Rufino Tamayo

A legacy from Caruso / Jan Peerce

Ballerina with a sense of humor / Alexandria Danilova

Voluble mime / Marcel Marceau

A thrust parried / Emlyn Williams

Generosity of spirit / Jose Greco

No battlecry from brunhilde

The conductor as comedienne / Antonia Brico

The general who talks to horses / Yeh-tsu-Pai

Met soprano at (horse) play