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...Tribune Sunday magazine last week. "Whispering, inconspicuous-formal, efficient-but precisely the perfect qualifications for a museum custodian, an undertaker, a mortuary scientist. Thirteen years ago, upon the death of Harold Ross, precisely that difficult task befell William Shawn: to be the museum curator, the mummifier, the preserver-in-amber, the smiling embalmer-for Harold Ross's New Yorker magazine...
Died. Linda Darnell, 41, sultry brunette star, and one of Hollywood's great natural beauties, who appeared in some 50 movies (Blood and Sand, Forever Amber, A Letter to Three Wives) from 1939 on; of burns suffered during a pre-dawn fire that started in the living room of a friend and former secretary whom she was visiting; in Chicago...
Chomping on a long black cigar in an amber holder, stubby, silver-haired Leander Perez, segregationist boss of Louisiana's Plaquemines Parish, gave the Senate Judiciary Committee the lowdown on what Negroes are really like. "They are of immoral character," drawled the Democratic politician. Their only interest is "to get welfare checks," he said. "They are a low type of citizenship...
...American Library, not Pocket Books, that paid $500,000 for the paperback reprint rights to Kathleen Winsor's new novel, Wanderers Eastward, Wanderers West [March 12]. N.A.L. also published Miss Winsor's Forever Amber, Star Money, The Lovers and America with Love in paperback...
...amber hair, aquamarine eyes, and a figure of better than semiprecious quality. He has a resolute jaw, the physique of a football hero, and a smile navigators could find their way home by. Both look too good to be true, as if they stepped off a billboard or out of a department store window; perfect, full-scale replicas of any of a number of American dreams. Instead, Ann and Lloyd Hand answered a different casting call. In December Lloyd accepted a bid from the President to succeed Angier Diddle Duke as the Chief of the U.S. State Department Office...