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...East Africa, he threw the excellent Ismaili hospitals and schools open to blacks, and anti-Ismaili feeling has-considerably subsided. But he is a devout Moslem and is determined that his people shall not be swallowed up by the majorities around them. To this end, the serious young bachelor has traveled 264,000 miles in three years, sparing little time for the beautiful women and good life on the Riviera that both his grandfather and his father Aly Khan enjoyed. Says Karim, "I'm anti-irresponsibility...
...last years of his life. Bachelor Prendergast became deaf-"so deaf." his old friend Van Wyck (The Flowering of New England) Brooks wrote of him, "that he could not hear the knock on the door when people came to see him. So his friends took to thrusting a newspaper under the door, which they rattled back and forth till he saw it. Prendergast did not greatly regret his deafness. He said he was glad to find that people did not shout the disagreeable things they had to say. Besides, he was never too deaf to hear good news from...
Bissell, in High Water and A Stretch on the River, has libeled the Mississippi more amusingly than anyone since Mark Twain, and Blue Rock, Iowa, the scene of his latest foolishness, is a river town. His hero is a happy bachelor named Frank Blanchard, who, though college-educated, wouldn't take New York if you renamed Sixth Avenue for him. And for good reason: he lives on a houseboat, makes a dandy income manufacturing Sno-Fuzz machines (Sno-Fuzz is a kiddy confection), and practices a kind of Greco-Roman wrestling with any number of ladies. In fallow periods...
...Three Sons (ABC) stars Fred MacMurray as a widower trying to raise his three sons, and trying, as well, to be another ratings-wealthy Bachelor Father. Like all situation comedies, this one sets its sights low and aims for modest objectives, reaching them with a professionalism as smooth as glass, blown to enclose a vacuum. In the first episode, both MacMurray and his devastatingly cute ten-year-old son were chastely chased by women of appropriate ages...
...another, they are invariably well heeled and can afford the proper clothes, hotels and restaurants as well as the sports cars to make all-night dashes of up to 700 miles from one corrida to the next. The most conspicuous bull bum in Spain last week was U.S. Bachelor Kenneth H. Vanderford, 51, who has seen 94 fights this season and whips from city to city in a red Karmann Ghia...