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...Textile Designer Pierre Sillan had left his $75,000 Westport home for his Manhattan office. His two sons were not at home; one was with the armed forces in Germany, the other at college. His 14-year-old daughter Gail got out of bed, put on a bed jacket and started downstairs. Suddenly, a tall, mustached Negro grabbed her, looped a cord round her neck, dragged her back into her bedroom, locked the door and began choking her. She fainted, and when she awoke, she heard noises downstairs. Rushing into the living room, she found the man strangling her mother...
...down and wrote this book, see, in which he sounds like a brash young man. If you happen to be an old grad, it will take you back to your own irrepressible youth. What a cut-up you were. Just like Bissell, who is pictured on the dust jacket astride his motorcycle. As you read his zany writing you are transported back to those wonderful years (during the Depression) and all the jokes ring true. Even so, weeping with laughter and nostalgia, you put the book down after 17 pages...
...wife of Publisher Samuel Newhouse (see PRESS). There were a few chic and social standouts, such as golden-haired Mrs. Winston ("Ceezee") Guest, who rode in a working hunter class in the afternoon, then appeared for the evening opening in a simple black sheath topped by a shocking-pink jacket. There was a scattering of celebrities, such as New York's Mayor Robert Wagner, Banker David Rockefeller, Actresses Zsa Zsa Gabor and Beatrice Lillie, and Playbore John Jacob Astor. But in general the crowd was so mousy that one society columnist was reduced to noting that...
...submitted three years ago. Later brought out in broader-minded England and France, it has finally found its way to U.S. audiences through one of the publishers that first rejected it, Grove Press (U.S. purveyors of Henry Miller's two Tropics], perhaps because it now wears on its jacket a plug from Miller himself. It proves astonishingly vulgar of tongue but also refreshingly light of heart...
...when an Air Force plane flew over his boat and dropped into the water a plastic bottle attached to a red flag. The message in the bottle told Boggs to phone the White House. His boat pulled over to a nearby offshore oil rig. The Congressman donned a life jacket, swung by rope to a spindly ladder, and climbed 150 feet to the rig's platform, where a helicopter was awaiting him. At an airbase on the mainland, they crammed Boggs into a flight suit, strapped him into a two-seat jet trainer, clapped an oxygen mask...