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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Manhattan town house). That same day Dorothy's own New York Journal-American began a two-part story about her. As between the Post and the JA, who compete for afternoon subway readers, the Kilgallen story lines were predictably at odds: the Post saw her as a snooty sort of celebrity's celebrity, the J-A as a dedicated reporter's reporter...
...hero (Ian Carmichael) is the sort of friendly Freddie that P. G. Wodehouse likes to write about. A graduate of Oxford and the army, he takes a job at the missile works run by his uncle (Dennis Price), who suggests he start at the bottom. So the hero goes blithely to work in the dispatch bay, while Director John Boulting goes slyly to work on the spivs he sees at both ends of Britain's social scale-on the unions that leave a worker free to join or starve and don't care if production goes...
Under such pressure-packed working conditions, a few pros moodily suspect their fellows of improving their lies after marking their balls on the greens. But there is little of that sort of thing, and little of the kind of gamesmanship practiced in the 1920s by the great Walter Hagen, who used to deflate a field of opponents by grandly inquiring, "Well, who's going to be second?" Among the last of the sly oldtimers is E. J. ("Dutch") Harrison, 50. With a younger player watching, Harrison will occasionally choose the wrong iron for a shot, choke upon the grip, curb...
...positive social pressure" on jazz players to use drugs, cited one band in which only one member did not smoke "pot"-and he was called an addict by the narcotics users because he took Miltown. Among the "benefits" the users feel they get from dope: 1) "contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems; and 3) a physical boost on road trips when they pull into a town after an all-day bus ride and have to play all evening. Said one player-who prefers drugs to alcohol: "If you drank feeling that tired...
...fast as Don Fabrizio drops them. The cold calculation and hot sensuality of their courtship, as it rages through the century-old rooms of Don Fabrizio's baroque summer palace, is one of the great set pieces of the novel. It is also tart social satire of the sort Faulkner might write about the mating of a Sartoris with a Snopes...