Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Confidence Man. When the FBI first began hinting last fortnight that ex-Convict Spears might still be alive and in hiding after duping a friend into boarding the National Airlines plane, Radio Newsman Barker called Mrs. Spears, got her to agree to an interview. In that first innocuous interview, Frances Spears insisted that if her husband were alive he "would be here with me and the babies." But if Barker did not at that time get much of a story, he got something else: Mrs. Spears's confidence. She named him her "press adviser," let him stay...
...friend who is also a member of Indonesia's growing creative art movement neatly defended Affandi: "It does not matter if we are entirely influenced by Europe; we will meet ourselves somewhere." The customers were pleased, bought ten out of the eleven Affandi offered for a total of about 250,000 rupiahs-or the equivalent of 15 years' middle-income salary in Djakarta...
Line Is Busy. In Fresno, Calif., the Pacific Telephone Co. filed suit to collect $1,642.73 from the mother of twelve-year-old Helen Jackson, who made 462 calls to her boy friend in less than two months...
...devil in the flesh, an Italian girl with the Spanish name of Veronica. But between bedroom and seaside trysts, Jack runs through flashbacks of Wife No. 1, a no-talent Greenwich Village actress, and Wife No. 2, an all-talents Hollywood star and nymphomaniac. When Veronica's boy friend shows up with a knife, Shaw stirs up enough plot to feed parts to an army of extras, expertly guides readers through a movie-colonist's Rome, febrile with sex and chicanery. He sauces his book with piquant if dubious notions, e.g., that the Sistine Chapel proves that Michelangelo...
...catacombs of the past might have remained sealed for Jack Andrus if he had not flown down to Rome for two weeks to help an old friend produce a movie. But one of the points of Irwin Shaw's new novel is that the past will not stay buried, and must be exorcised. Like Shaw's previous novels (The Troubled Air, Lucy Crown}, the latest is more make-believe than believable. But its underlying mood is dispiritingly palpable, like a cigarette-lacerated tongue on a hungover dawn...