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...held different views. Nikita Khrushchev ignored him when they met, despite Mao Tse-tung's accurate advice that the "little man" had "a great future ahead of him." Mao's wife, Chiang Ch'ing, despised him, and twice her radical supporters vilified him as China's most evil "capitalist reader." At one Politburo meeting in 1975, Mao asked all those in opposition to one of his proposals to stand up. When Teng did so, the Great Helmsman looked at him coldly and reportedly said, "Since I see nobody standing up, my proposal is unanimously adopted...
...reader is constantly aware-as the men in her later life must have been-that Bacall was, and to some extent always will be, Bogie's Baby. When they met in 1944 while co-starring in To Have and Have Not, she was 19 and he was 44. Bogart was unhappily married to a woman noted for her drinking and violent temper, so the courtship was stealthily conducted in trailers and friends' boats...
...York Review of Books. Sheed's opinions seem right most of the time, but not so invariably right as to be insufferable. Too much Tightness shuts off debate and stifles the thought process. Sheed provides a good mixture of wisdom and nonsense, so that the reader finds himself saying, "Yeah, yeah, right," and then, "Now wait a minute!" He is properly appreciative of Edmund Wilson, sound on Walker Percy and P.O. Wodehouse, and amusing about the mandarins of New York film reviewing. He goes awry when he tries to deal with Hemingway, perceiving the oafishness and neuroticism...
...issue dated June 17, 1929, TIME printed a small ad that made a large offer: for $60, a reader could purchase a subscription that would last "to the end of TIME." In a year when an office worker might earn only $20 a week, spending $60 for a newsmagazine just six years old was a bold investment. Nevertheless, nearly 200 readers-from places as diverse as Myitkyina, Burma and Goose Creek, Texas-bet on the future of TIME...
...learned that some perpetual subscribers value their subscriptions highly enough to include them in wills. More than 60 subscriptions have already passed on to other readers. Today, of course, the $60 investment is a blue chip. If a reader had purchased TIME at a newsstand every week during the past 49 years, he would have spent $788.65. Abraham Katz of Cambridge, Mass., however, regards his subscription as more than just a bargain. "To be a part of the magazine's growth during all these years," says the 75-year-old electrical-supplies distributor, "makes me very proud...