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...once all her troubles were small ones, which made a nice change of pace in the saga of Singer Judy Garland, 40. First, Judy flew to London to toast her new film, / Could Go On Singing, and buss British Juvenile Gregory Phillips, 15, who plays her son. So far, so good. Then back to Manhattan, where real-life daughter Liza Minnelli, 17, appearing on TV with Jack Paar and struggling through rehearsals for an off-Broadway musical, had fractured a bone in her foot. Finally the trolley ran out of gas, and Judy, laid...
Radio Moscow's story blew up a storm of cables and telephone calls from Western newsmen panting after all the newty details. And, though U.S. scientists soon pooh-poohed the salamander saga, it made the front pages of most U.S. newspapers, which since Sputnik I have tended to overplay far-out Soviet scientific claims. Then a Russian scientist debunked the story. Professor Gleb Lozino-Lozinsky. head of the space biology laboratory at the Leningrad Institute of Cytology, disclosed that it had been lifted from a children's book, and "has nothing to do with science." Snapped...
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour-An Introduction, by J. D. Salinger. Further doings in the steadily proliferating saga of the Glass family...
...loved The Catcher in the Rye in the tender years of adolescence are puzzled by the new J. D. Salinger. We took Holden Caulfield to heart because he was our friend, betrayed and maltreated like us by an insensitive world. But the Glass family is beyond our ken. The saga of Seymour, Zooey and the others, clouded by esoteric references to Eastern philosophy, can not hold us as the story of the guileless school-boy did. Has Salinger changed in the ten years of transition? No, he remains essentially the same. We have changed; by growing up we have passed...
...reprinted from the New Yorker in book form, and Salinger, on the dust jacket of the latest offering, Raise High the Roof Beams, Carpenters (1955) and Seymour: an Introduction (1959), promises several more, which will no doubt be well received by the growing Salinger cult. The heroes of the saga, as everyone knows, are or were seven children (two are now dead), the offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English at an upstate New York...