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...grace. In The Time of Your Life, Saroyan gave us one whore with a heart of gold, the luminous Kitty Duval. Wilson is no piker. He gives us three: Martha (Trish Hawkins), April (Conchata Ferrell) and Suzy (Stephanie Gordon). Martha is a lost, innocent child, April her caustic Eve Arden-type sidekick, and Suzy the dumb one. It testifies to the durability of the goodhearted-prostitute cliche that audiences can still...
...courts-often run by the same men who had so long and so profitably been keeping the poor in their place. Locally, the poor were harassed by law officials; some were charged with illegally "challenging rights of individuals to vote" (all those ineligible names on the voting lists). Magistrate Arden Mounts even told Mrs. Judy Trent, victim of such a charge: "You're going to have to prove your innocence, or I'm going to have to find you guilty." She was fined $100 and sentenced to 60 days in jail...
While Eleanor was playing the themes, Pat was off playing the heartstrings in her self-appointed role as Dignified First Lady, above and removed from politics. Flying in a presidential 707 with nine White House staffers, six Secret Service men, one hairdresser (on loan from Elizabeth Arden) and 30 reporters and cameramen, Pat always came on to carefully chosen audiences. Her advance army did its best to hide dissenters, discourage rude questions and avoid unpleasant encounters. The atmosphere for most of the trip was summed up by Ed Reimers, M.C. for an American Cancer Society dinner in Los Angeles. Speaking...
...enlarged by two daughters, Heidi and Nancy) returned to California, this time to Sacramento, where his father eventually enrolled Mark in the swimming program at the downtown Y.M.C.A. There Mark won nearly all his races; his only losses were to a pair of young pool hustlers from the nearby Arden Hills Swim Club. Not taking kindly to defeat, Arnold Spitz promptly turned his young son over to Arden Hills Coach Sherman Chavoor, who has been Mark's mentor?officially and unofficially?ever since. The boy learned fast. At age ten he set his first U.S. record?...
...spoiled rituals" if the departed guest comes back for his forgotten umbrella, or if the transferred employee is reassigned to his old job. Then he and his well-wishers find they have participated "in an inappropriate statement, yet one that cannot be unsaid." The extreme example is "the Enoch Arden case in which a person returning unexpectedly finds not only that his place is no longer available to him, but that another person has filled it, thereby creating what may be worse than a sociological demise, namely, a sociological double...