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...Athens, starring Jayne Mansfield). But since Scottish law sets 18 as the legal drinking age, that spot of brandy soon splashed into headlines, and Buckingham Palace-perhaps mindful that Britannia has waived the rules too often lately-left its heir apparent to the mercies of Gordonstoun Headmaster Robert Chew. Chew began chewing with: "The normal punishment for an offense of this kind is a beating or a demotion. The latter seems the likelier...
...affair was organized by a pair of ideologues who chew one another up in print but are friends anyway-Murray Kempton, onetime New York Post columnist who now ventilates his views in the left-wing New Republic, and William F. Buckley Jr.. editor of the right-wing National Review. After King Features Syndicate sacked Pegler last summer for calling Boss William Randolph Hearst Jr. a "spoiled brat," the two set up the dinner and invited some of the irascible columnist's friends and former colleagues "to tell Peg that we like...
...They chew through plays and they chew through films and they chew in trains," complained the London Daily Mail. "They suck lollies through Macbeth and Hamlet, and they while away Tennessee Williams with the chocolates with the scrumptious centers." The Mail's complaint was not another anti-American outburst, but a cultural critique of the world's most ravenous candy eaters: the British. Unfazed by calorie counts, the English last year ate an average 8 oz. of candy weekly, nearly double the sweet tooth of any other European country and well above the 5.6 oz. a week...
...incipient writer remembers some advice given him by a newspaper editor for whom he worked during high school. "This piece sounds like you have been writing from notes. Chew everything up and spit it out in one stream" he said. If the metaphor is a bit inelegant the advice is sound, and it is not an accident that the editor was one of Van Doren's most devoted and fondly remembered students at Columbia...
...Clays of Louisville are an old Kentucky family. Not rich, maybe, like the folks who play pool in the Pendennis Club and chew mint leaves on the veranda at Churchill Downs. But the Clays have been there for six generations-ever since their ancestors worked as slaves on the plantation of Cassius Marcellus Clay, who was Lincoln's Minister to Russia. They like the name, and they like Louisville, and they have a red brick house with five rooms, all of them on one floor. It's got wall-to-wall carpeting in every room and a picture...