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Drawing on Kennedy's biography and on his own impressions, Show Business Writer John McPhee went to work on his cover story about the remarkable girl who impersonates the remarkable Fanny Brice. Meanwhile, Senior Editor A. T. Baker wanted to know what ever happened to Nicky Arnstein, Fanny Brice's former gangster husband, who was last heard of years ago somewhere in Los Angeles. TIME'S Hollywood Reporter Joyce Haber mobilized the help of three police departments, the Nevada Gaming Control Board, the intelligence unit of the Treasury Department, lawyers, nightclub owners, columnists and several helpful hoodlums...
...more loving than shoving, and her chopped-liver-on-wry dialogue is a deadpan delight. And Danny Meehan, as Fanny's unrequited lover and faithful friend, makes a dreary role cheery just by standing on his head to whistle. Sydney Chaplin has a cheerlessly unwritten part as Nicky Arnstein, the gambler and jailbird whom Fanny loves, marries, overmanages, and loses. It scarcely helps that Chaplin lackadaisically stands around in a tuxedo most of the evening looking like a rented escort at the wrong address...
...read (and laughed at in derision!) the letter written to you by Walter L. Arnstein, assistant professor of history at Roosevelt University in Chicago-in which he says that Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of England, was born of Jewish parents but later was baptized and became a faithful follower of a Protestant church-therefore, not a Jew any longer...
...suggest that Professor Arnstein look into his heart, and his common sense, before accepting the written word...
WALTER L. ARNSTEIN Assistant Professor of History Roosevelt University Chicago...