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...tells what happens to the bright young things from college that come wriggling down to Manhattan to get in The Big Swim. They land in The Typing Pool. And from there, it is only another wriggle to The Flesh Pot. Compared with the hot buttered Manhattan of Authoress Jaffe's imagination, the Hollywood version of the big city is a sort of cautiously diluted Scotch-and-Sodom. Nevertheless, a virgin's virtue can dissolve with appalling celerity in this sinister mixture...
...after six, government officials were impressed. Last spring Dr. Antonakaki's draft bill for school reform was put forward by the Education Minister with Premier Constantine Karamanlis' enthusiastic support. The changes involve curriculum, teacher training and the very rebuilding of the schools themselves. Last month, after the authoress herself had testified eleven days before committees, the bill was unanimously adopted...
Ultimate Compliment. By last week, Pamela Mason, sometime actress (The Upturned Glass), authoress (A Lady Possessed), had carved such a successful career on her ad-lib shows with her sharp tongue that Comedian Jack Benny paid her the ultimate compliment: a well-rehearsed part as an "ad-lib" panelist in his TV satire on the subject. The show itself proved mainly that Pamela is no straight player. "I've always had a tendency to talk too much," she concedes. "I may as well enjoy it." That she does...
...Anna Piper, an English authoress from Lower Mall, London, described her novels as "light, middle-class, and sexy." "I'm almost the least 'academic person' in the crowd," she said. Her novels include Early to Bed, Green for Love, and The Hot Year. Mrs. Piper finishes a book a year and has a seventh...
...Niagara Falls secretary was "up in the air." An expert on more earthly pleasures, bestselling Novelist Grace Metalious, 33, popped into an Alabama court, picked up a quickie divorce from husband George, three days later married her longtime friend, ex-Disk Jockey Thomas Martin, 33. Said the unblushing authoress of the unblushing Peyton Place: Martin "was the only man in my world who made me feel intensely female. A stallion type...