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Effusive Abe Spanel, board chairman of the International Latex Corp. (baby pants, girdles, pillows), likes to buy space in newspapers to print his own opinions and those of people he admires (e.g., Sumner Welles, Robert M. Hutchins)-and incidentally to plug his company. In March 1945, Pegler took off on...
Last week ex-Admirer Canby was formally admitted to the Pegler gallery of melted waxworks. Wrote Peg: "Henry Seidel Canby [is] an antediluvian crud who has been mewling away about the art of writing for the last 2,000 years, and pompously presuming to toss compliments to his betters, such...
Failure of a Mission. History has presented the bloody Cesare as diabolical, dazzling and colorful. Author Balchin makes him look like an austere combination of Sir Stafford Cripps and Cesare's own calloused admirer, the scholarly Niccolo Machiavelli. Cesare's fall came when Julius II, a deadly enemy...
Having waved aside the prospect of immortality, Writer Mencken laid about him with such relish that it finally settled into a kind of smugness. His iconoclasm became a trademark and an act; the Paris-green-covered American Mercury that he edited became an undergraduate bible for the bright boys of...
Lara met María in 1945, when he attended a studio party for the then unknown young actress who had just gotten rave notices for her first big picture. María Félix invited Lara to a party next night at her apartment. She apologized for not...