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Cammann was not out of the book long. Elizabeth divorced him in 1955, then was married for six years to Actor Gig Young. Her current husband is William Asher, who directs Bewitched. They live in Malibu with their infant son and a Siamese cat named...
...fully effective, say psychologists, a slogan should express a single idea in seven words or less. "It is a psychological fact," says Harvard's Gordon Allport, "that seven is the normal limit of rote memory." (Example: telephone numbers.) Whether plugging cat food or a candidate, sloganeers lean heavily on such verbal devices as alliteration ("Korea, Communism, Corruption"), rhyme ("All the way with L.B.J."), or a combination of both ("Tippecanoe and Tyler Too").* Other familiar standbys are paradox ("We have nothing to fear but fear itself"), metaphor ("Just the kiss of the hops"), metonymy ("The full dinner pail"), parody...
...naming of cats is a difficult matter, but the naming of Medal of Freedom winners puts it to shame. Lyndon Johnson finally awarded one to Poet Thomas Stearns Eliot, 76, even though the nation's highest civilian decoration is primarily intended for Americans and Eliot has been one of Her Majesty's most Britannic subjects for some 40 years. However, he was originally a product of St. Louis and Harvard, which are pretty American. A practical cat, and one who has to watch his health nowadays, Eliot elected to receive his honor in London. But as U.S. Ambassador...
Last year a couple of cat burglars named Chuck McKinley and Dennis Ralston sneaked off with Australia's prize silver: the Davis Cup. The mug had been in the family for most of 13 years, and the Aussies did not take the abduction kindly. So off to Cleveland last week trotted two of Australia's finest: Roy Emerson, the world's No. 1-ranked amateur, and Fred Stolle, ranked No. 2. "We'll win 4 to 1," predicted Aussie Captain Harry Hopman, as always the soul of confidence-and not without cause...
...Cat's Eye Tests. If the object in Jimmy's eye had been of iron or steel, Colonel Passmore could have removed it with relative ease on his first try with an electromagnet. When he found that it was another material - almost certainly brass-all he could do was let the eye heal a little and hope to get at the object later. But there was grave danger that eye fluids would react with the metal and compel removal of the eye. Then Dr. Passmore remembered reading that Dr. Nathaniel Bronson II had begun work in New York...