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Wafer-Thin Skins. But it was Los Angeles Mirror Columnist Paul Coates who cynically wised up Reagan with the facts of life: "I'm amazed that he hasn't heard of the unwritten law which makes it verboten to openly blast a Hollywood columnist. They are all hypersensitive old dears with wafer-thin skins...
...case in point was the handsomely carved mirror of a Bushongo sorcerer, equipped with what seemed to be a quite unfunctional shutter. Actually, the shutter was as important as a camera's; the sorcerer thought that by closing it he could trap the reflections and therefore the very souls of unwary lookers...
...public in 1910. After 41 years of anxiety, nerves, strain and hard work, I think I deserve to take it easy. You know that the Marschallin [the aging heroine of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier] has always been one of my favorite parts. The Marschallin looks into her mirror and says, 'It is time' ... I look into my mirror and say 'It is time.'" She was ready to live year-round in her California home, follow her hobbies (pottery and painting) and do some teaching...
...Faith Baldwin Theater of Romance (alternate Sats. 11 a.m., ABC) hopes to mirror the rosy view of U.S. life & love that has enchanted the Baldwin millions. The first show opened with harp strings, cloud formations and a lyric hymn to Maidenform ("The dream of a bra . . . the largest-selling brassiere in the world!"), illustrated with sexy shots of bra-girls skiing, stretching, or just standing around in half-dressed hauteur...
...Sunday Express' Columnist Ephraim Hardcastle, like the Mirror, went after Air Force exaggerations. Hardcastle also charged that General MacArthur's intelligence chief, Major General Charles A. Willoughby, had done even more fantastic work with statistics. "If his communiques are to be believed," wrote Hardcastle, Willoughby's intelligence system "is nothing short of miraculous . . . On Dec. 26 he . . . said the Communists had 444,406 troops actually in Korea, of which 277,173 were Chinese and 167,233 North Koreans. I have never seen a wartime report of enemy strength . . . meticulous to the nearest digit...