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...world that Sunset Boulevard is just an extension of Main Street. For the past decade, the U.S. has been flooded with pictures of stars scrubbing their floors, baking cakes, sewing clothes and doing everything but breastfeeding their own babies. At a recent meeting of Hollywood pressagents, Producer William (Forever Amber) Perlberg scolded: "You have taken the glamor out of the business . . . Would you want to go to the theater and pay money to see the girl next door...
...competitor for his big brothers, Bantam, Avon, Signet, and Pocketbooks, Inc. Gold Medal specializes in the facts of life at the expense of plausibility, and is making a big success of it in the Square. Sample titles: "Satan Is A Woman," "I, Mobster," "Women's Barracks." Titles like "Forever Amber" and "Star Money" (at 50 cents apiece) are of course, old favorites...
...stickers, only to be disappointed when she learned the artists' names. "Well, I certainly got some stinkers!" she muttered. "Who ever heard of them?" Among other buyers were Fleur Cowles of Look magazine, who got abstractions by Hans Hoffmann and George L. K. Morris, Novelist Kathleen (Forever Amber) Winsor, who got a landscape, and the University of Georgia museum, which picked up three paintings and two sculptures...
...life again. Most shopkeepers have no shops, only boxes and crates or an old army cot on which to display their wares. Some lay their little collections on the ground, brushing away the dust which sifts off Bell Street. They have not much to sell: a handful of amber beads, half a dozen mismated, tinted water tumblers, a tall, slender, gaily painted chalk doll. Some have rice, flour, corn, and cotton cloth. They get the food in devious ways. One said that he had his rice from a Department of Justice employee, another said his came from a South Korean...
...Flagg Jr., East Williston, New York; C. Henry W. Foster 2nd, Charles River, Mass.; Samuel Hoar, Jr., Concord, Mass.; Jehangir J. Mugaseth, Bombay, India; Hugh Nawn Jr., Newton Centre, Mass.; David Symmes, Franconia, N.H.; Charles W. Ufford, Haverford, Pa.; David Watts, Short Hills, N.J.; Morris W. Wood Jr., Amber Pa.; Laurence A. Pierce, Manager, Brookline, Mass...