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...best of Bob and Ray; he slipped a little in a talk with a sculptress, recovered nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara Fritchie. "Here's the flag, Barbara, so stick that old grey head out the window." Says Barbara: "You pay me the money first, then I'll stick the old grey head out the window...
When not in college, Kay (as he is called at Harvard) lives in London's Eaton Square with his mother, the former Joan Barbara Yarde-Buller, who, according to the late Aga, is an "Englishwoman of beauty, charm, wit and breeding." From there last week he hurried to Switzerland to his dying grandfather's bedside. Tense and nervous after the announcement of his succession, he took his seat on a white satin throne to receive a delegation of Moslem dignitaries from India, Pakistan, Singapore and East Africa. "My religious duties," he said, "start as of today...
Tanner bottles his bestselling fizz under polypseudonymous labels. As Patrick Dennis he created the madwoman of Beekman Place, Auntie Mame. As Virginia Rowans he examined The Loving Couple and its five-year itch. Again as Dennis, he wrote (with Barbara Hooton) Guestward Ho!, the saddle-slipping saga of a Manhattan couple turned dude-ranch managers. On the assumption that the public is now hopelessly Tanner-Dennis-Rowans-addicted, his publishers are currently offering two seasonal pick-me-ups, one a reissue entitled House Party (originally published in 1954) and the other a collaboration with Dorothy (The Crystal Boat) Erskine called...
...INTERPLAY OF EAST AND WEST, by Barbara Ward (152 pp.; Norton; $3.50), performs one of those housewifely miracles of sorting out centuries and civilizations as if they were so many knives, forks and spoons. It is a pleasure to behold if not always to believe British Author Ward as she tidies up the Hell's Kitchen of history...
...people directs." Communism is "a means of dividing and enslaving thought and will. It should go back to its historical cemetery." As for Nationalism, the twentieth century subtracted from it the ability "to maintain national life." As he flicks the shrouds of his chosen ghosts. Author Berle agrees with Barbara Ward that the only way to exorcise them permanently is to set up economic and political "world organizations...