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...woman serving in the U.S. Senate seemed as remote as the moon. Maggie was the eldest of six children of George and Carrie Chase, a working-class couple in Skowhegan, the picturesque mill town on the Kennebec. George operated a one-chair barbershop with a gilt-framed mirror and a shelf of personal shaving mugs for his regular customers. The family lived next door in a maple-shaded, five-room frame house, and as a small girl, Maggie learned how to shave and cut the hair of the country bumpkins who filled the barbershop on Saturday afternoons...
Come Dance with Me (Francis Cosne; Kingsley) concerns a dentist (the late Henri Vidal) who, during an important poker game, experiences a moment of tooth. Brigitte Bardot appears, leading her sore-jawed father. It is an emergency. Vidal puts on his white jacket, jams his mirror into the sufferer's mouth, then stares entranced at the filling-Brigitte's, naturally. Before long the toothache is even worse, but he, the handsome dog, and she, the pretty thing, are in love...
...have misquoted me, in a very disquieting way, in your July 4 issue. I did not "moan" at the Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse." Nor any words to that general effect. What I said (smiling or possibly even laughing) was that writing about mass culture for the mass audience (e.g., such bestsellers as The Status Seekers, The Organization Man, etc.) had become the latest form of pornography-"the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse." Such sociologizing books and articles have nothing to do with literature...
...when the late Lord Halifax served briefly, had a member of the upper house held the high office of Foreign Secretary. Worse, said the Liberal News Chronicle, Macmillan's man was a peer whose career had progressed only from "the negligible to the mediocre." The Laborite Daily Mirror called it "the most reckless political appointment since the Roman Emperor Caligula made his favorite horse a consul," and the independent-conservative Spectator, far from disagreeing, called the comparison "apt" and added: "The Earl of Home at his best has shown signs of equine intelligence." The object of all this objurgation...
Born. To Terry Moore, 30, cinemactress, and Stuart Warren Cramer III, 32, Los Angeles businessman and her third husband: their first child, a son, by natural childbirth (she watched it by mirror) ; in Hollywood...