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...little." Still feeling that a bit more bounce is needed for The Bible, Director John Huston, 57, has added his bibulous knight of the Iguana, Richard Burton, to either narrate or play (but not raise) Cain. Did that mean Liz Taylor would also join the cast? Absolutely not, quoth Huston. "Perhaps there may be something for her in the sequel-when we do the part about Potiphar's wife...
...York Philharmonic. After a rehearsal in Manhattan, Wife Lillian wanted to know what he had done with his lower incisors. "I couldn't find them," quoth Sandburg. "Anyway, they hurt." But the missing teeth soon turned up in his lady's handbag, and Sandburg talked freely. At fourscore and five years, says he, "I don't go around telling people how to live long. My advice reduces itself to this: watch out about stumbling into a coal hole, and-it's always safer to walk upstairs than down...
...Quoth the sunburned satirist: "I look like a peeling billboard." Thus out of the bush near Nairobi, Kenya, strewing perels of witdom to mark his trail, came a hornrimmed, slyly befuddled big white hunter known to civilized nations as Humorist S. J. Perelman, 59. Having bagged a Broadway comedy hit. The Beauty Part, Perelman was an author in search of "four magazine articles." At the end of his Land-Roving safari through Kenya, he caromed up to London, hoping later to join a tiger shoot in India, then on to Burma and Bangkok to see what the jet-set drifters...
That made it even better. He got a fight with bold old Archie Moore, who was working on his 45th knockout when Clay was born. Quoth Cassius...
...Greenwich Village Java saloon called The Bitter End and one of the poems recited was Ode to a Champion: Cassius Marcellus Clay. Its author? Who else but Prosodic Pugilist Cassius Marcellus Clay, 20, getting ready for his Madison Square Garden skirmish this week with Heavyweight Doug Jones. Quoth Cassius: "The word's been passed around that I'm a very charming guy./ the greatest fighter that ever lived,/ and I'll gladly tell you why . . ." Of course if he turned out to be wrong, Cassius could just call himself a beat poet...