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...would ever be in the same league with the Glenn Fords. "I always romanticized that artists were a very special species and that ordinary people didn't become actors," he says. The son of a clothing retailer in Ossining, N.Y., Peter was ordinary people all right-a roughneck kid who dropped out of college to join the merchant marine in World War II, later got a master's in public administration at Syracuse University and spent three bemused, bored years as an efficiency expert in Connecticut's budget bureau. All along he had acted with school...
...Edward Mulhare, elegant head of Femina cosmetics? Is it his roughneck rival at May Fortune cosmetics, Jack Kruschen? Is it Chemist Ray Walston, who plays his part so broadly that his dialogue seems to be dubbed? Or is it really the men who wrote and directed this bleached botch of a comedy drama...
...went further. After Yale, at a stage when his brothers were selecting wives from the proper families and digging into the New York-based family businesses and philanthropies, he became a roustabout in the Texas oilfields at 75? per hour, moved up to roughneck, or assistant driller, at 83?, and lived in a $4.50-a-week room. When he came home three years later, he worked briefly at junior jobs in such family-dominated enterprises as the Chase National Bank (now Chase Manhattan) and Socony-Vacuum Oil Co. (now Mobil). He began taking on charitable responsibilities and helped organize...
...drop out of college (Yale during his third year). He never returned. "I went to a doctor," he recalled later, "who examined my eyes and then remarked: 'I don't believe the trouble is in your eyes. Did you ever try opening a book?' " Roustabout to Roughneck. It was an unspoken law that all the Rockefeller boys should try their hands at manual labor while in school and on vacation...
...Fine Madness. "He's writing this big poem, and it just won't come out," says Joanne Woodward, pleading with Psychiatrist Patrick O'Neal to take an interest in her husband's work. As the sleazy wife of a roughneck Greenwich Village poet, Joanne belts out her best lines with actressy intensity and proves only that she is too bright a blonde to play dumb. Somewhat more at home with his role-a poet with a sex life as breezy as James Bond's-is Sean Connery, who displays some proof of his versatility...