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Uphill Career. When, Althea left for Wimbledon in May, only three close friends were at the airport to wish her luck. When she returned a winner, Idlewild was awash with people. Countless acquaintances suddenly remembered how they had helped her in the past, and crowded close to share her success. The big city, which had offered Althea's parents a cramped railroad flat in which to raise their children, honored her with a ticker-tape parade. And people breathlessly wanted to know how it had felt to shake hands with Queen Elizabeth at Wimbledon and what they had said...
...Ernie Kovacs rehearses his confusion." says one TV producer, "but Jack Paar just creates it." Last week Funnyman Paar, whom critics have long accused of living in winter off the nut he stores up in summer, was awash in the unrehearsed confusion of a sprawling, winter-weight marathon ballyhooed by NBC as the "new" Tonight. Contorting his rubber-band lips around his familiar pipestem and some spottily diverting japes, neat, dumpling-cheeked Jack Paar, 39, glibly scared up a little offbeat fun and flapdoodle-something that the gossipists who succeeded Kovacs and Steve Allen were notably unable to do. Despite...
...boom of all time, Wall Street's customers-along with U.S. butchers, bakers and candlestick makers-had enough yachts to swamp Wall Street's navy and dot every U.S. shoreline from California to Maine. How did the boom grow and what is the U.S. boating industry, already awash with prosperity, doing to keep up with a market that will grow to $1.5 billion this year? See BUSINESS, Down...
...appealing, as is their occasional touch of middle-aged resignation (sometimes known as wisdom). Marquand suggests that the country club is an oasis of sanity shut away "from a few of the more unpleasant realities that surround us." With its parking spaces achoke, its locker rooms asweat, its bars awash, and a loyal barkeep resolutely giving the little woman at the end of the telephone the wrong answer as to her husband's whereabouts, the U.S. country club may just possibly be the American's castle-and in its way no less impressive than the Baths of Caracalla...
...result is a cross-rip of conflicting trends, awash with the froth and flotsam of derivative mannerisms and borrowed techniques, with only here and there a standout figure combining endurance, freshness and individual talent. Among those whose work indicates that they bear watching...