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Edge of the Swamp. A lanky (6 ft. 5 in.), all-business bachelor, Drake himself is trying to learn to swing a little with the music set in Los Angeles. But it does not come naturally to a fellow who was born Philip Yarbrough (his assumed name, he says, "sounds better") in Georgia on the edge of Okefenokee swamp. What did come naturally, though, was the sound of music. At an early age, he was conducting a fantasy disk-jockey show at home, playing his favorites-gospel and country, Eddie Fisher and the Four Aces. By junior year in high...
Object of the unbankerly attack was a 29-year-old, Yale-educated multimillionaire named William Mathews White Jr., a bachelor who tools around Denver in a fire-engine red International Scout, acts on the belief that "the only people who are ever heard are those who stand above the crowd and shout...
Sara Mayfield's chatty account of "the Sage of Baltimore" is another link in the seemingly endless sausage of Menckeniana. Miss Mayfield, an Alabamian who was a close friend of Mencken, is most revealing on Mencken the professional bachelor who finally gave in at the age of 49 and endorsed monogamy as "comfortable, laudable, and sanitary...
After a tour in the Navy at the end of World War II, Evans picked up bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering from the University of Washington. Recalled to duty as a lieutenant in 1951, he served as aide to Admiral William K. Mendenhall, the Navy's representative on the Military Armistice Commission at Panmunjom. When Evans told his boss he aimed to quit the Navy and run for office, Mendenhall urged him to stay on. As the now retired admiral recalls, Evans replied: "Well, the political business at home is a dirty business, and I think...
...Joyce disciple Anthony Burgess has read everything. The prolific Englishman, author of thirteen books since 1949, has thrown it all into his latest tale of a lonely antihero dragging his dyspeptic way through the exoticisms of the Great Mundane. Burgess's greatest creation is Enderby, a wheezing, farting, belching bachelor poet who writes in the lavatory of his filthy flat. Enderby is a Mad Magazine version of Leopold Bloom; he sentimentally feeds gulls and innocently offends all the local pub personnel. Suddenly offered an obscure prize for his poetry, Enderby borrows a suit from a friendly chef in return...