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...yellow Cadillac convertible in front of the San Francisco Chronicle building last winter stepped a shapely brunette wearing a little black dress by Dior and the scrutable smile of a woman who knows what she wants. Ushered into Sunday Editor Stanleigh Arnold's third-floor office. Mrs. Morton ("Popo") Phillips announced that the paper's advice-to-the-lovelorn column had gone from drab to worse. "Why." she protested prettily, "I know I could do better myself." Editor Arnold suggested that she try, handed his visitor a six-week sheaf of columns by Lovelornist Molly Mayfield...
...less than two hours, Popo Phillips was back with her own replies to more than 70 lonelyheart letters. Their crisply confident style so impressed the editors that she returned the same afternoon to sign a contract to write six columns a week for the Chronicle under the pen name Abigail Van Buren. also landed a ten-year contract with the McNaught Syndicate. As she was leaving the Chronicle, Editor Arnold remarked to Popo Phillips that her witty, worldy replies to the letters reminded him of Ann (Your Problems) Landers, heartthrob star of the Chicago Sun-Times Syndicate. "They ought...
...Irresistible Challenge. Popo, as even the Indians call the tongue-twisting peak, exacts its toll nowadays from the young and the strong who, year after year, feel the irresistible challenge to climb the mountain. After eleven climbers had lost their lives in 1953, government authorities stepped in to regulate the traffic of alpinists. They prohibited ascents when the weather was threatening, and required each climber to have a safe minimum of alpine gear for the venture. The precautions seemed to work; ten months passed without a casualty on Popo...
...Death. A search party clawed and hacked its way up the steepest side of Popo, found the injured youth and girl in the lean-to where the young climber had left them; they were carried back to safety. Following the course of the avalanche, the party came to a deep crevasse and spotted in it with searchlights a climber's torn coat. Near by, the rescuers found the first body, that of a college football star, Humberto Areizaga. As they dug deeper they were horrified to hear muffled voices beneath them. Leonor Colin, a 21-year-old student...
Kaye's wonderfully mobile face and his incredible sense of timing are still his main stock in trade. His best performances in "On the Riviera" are a clever dance-pantomime song about "Popo the Puppet," a series of doubles entendres with Miss Tierney, and the airport reception for Capitaine Henri Duran...