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Steam & Soap. In a sensible introduction to The Bedbug and Selected Poetry Editor Patricia Blake recognizes the danger of clinging to any single clue to explain why the poet courted death. Mayakovsky had suffered a nervous breakdown, had been ill with a stubborn grippe, and was always 'deadly bored." In spite of his popularity, he was chronically lonely and in spite of his laureate's standing the shifting Party lines of Soviet literature had left him with a persecution complex. Besides, the latest of his long series of love affairs was going badly. Most important...
...Baltimore and journeyed to New York to attend an emergency meeting. After he straightened things out, Albert Davis Lasker turned to the other conferees and announced: "Gentlemen, I have done all I can for you. Good day, because I must return to Johns Hopkins now and continue my nervous breakdown...
Patternmaker. For lesser men, the hectic pace of Albert Lasker's life would have led to worse things than an interruptible nervous breakdown. In his 44 years with Lord & Thomas (most of them as sole owner), Lasker dominated U.S. advertising and cut the pattern for its grey flannel suit. Under his influence the public was introduced to irium and Amos 'n' Andy, to Kleenex, four-door sedans and soap operas. Yet Lasker was all but invisible: almost nothing was written about him, and two blocks off Madison Avenue his name is still virtually unknown. In this fine...
There's Good News Tonight (Doubleday; $3.95) by Gabriel Heatter. The noted radio soothsayer, with some editorial assistance, provides an unnecessary autobiography, which follows the standard matrix for a show-business memoir: Rags. Youthful Striving, Nervous Breakdown. Riches, Philosophy. The last is summed up thus: "Each, in his way, packs his bag and goes on. It's a golden journey, strewn with rocks and jewels. Who would have it any other...
...order to save money for a model bungalow, refuses to sleep any longer with Humphrey Place, and he, in turn, leaves her at the altar. Mr. Weedin, the personnel manager, looks into Dougal's bewitched eyes and at "the alarming bones of his hands" and suffers a nervous breakdown. Mr. Druce himself, suspecting that Dougal is a police informer in alliance with Merle Coverdale, kills his mistress by stabbing her nine times with a corkscrew. Dougal at about that time flees Peckham Rye for Africa, where he makes a living selling portable tape recorders to witch doctors...