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...meanly in a $16-a-month room, could stand some medical attention himself: his hernia bothers him a good deal, but he cannot afford a doctor ("Everything is so dear"). Then how can he afford a charity? "Oh," he explained, "that's different. I'm an old bachelor and I don't have any family, so why shouldn't I help the poor? . . . Every night I put aside whatever change I have in my pockets and save it up and when Christmas comes I take it and give it to charity...
...long, bitter, on-&-off feud with her cinemactress sister, Joan Fontaine (no one has figured out any specific reason for the ill-feeling, beyond the fact that both are high-strung young women and in a sense professional rivals). She has, during a decade as "Hollywood's Bachelor Girl," been "linked" romantically in the gossip columns with many of the community's most prominent men, from Jimmy Stewart to Howard Hughes. She is suspected of being an "intellectual." She has a hardheaded, serious-minded approach to her career (she is probably Hollywood's only star who regularly...
...legend has built up that Goodrich is a sort of Svengali; actually, he is a fine figure of a Naval Reserve officer with a quarterdeck voice and a manner to match. With him, Olivia has emphatically settled down. She has dropped all the friends of her fluttery, bachelor-girl days. When one of them (a middle-aged producer) recently tried to speak to her on the phone, he was informed that Mrs. Goodrich's former bachelor friends were no longer welcome. Said the dazed producer later: "What do I have to do to talk to her-get married...
...finicky bachelor of 52, Virgil Thomson comes from Missouri, but got to Manhattan by way of Harvard and Paris. Since he repatriated himself and joined the New York Herald Tribune, he has become America's most readable, and perhaps its best, music critic. Concertgoing by night, and composing by day in his dim, Victorian rooms in Manhattan's old Chelsea Hotel, he has also become one of the few U.S.-born composers who can (or cares to) catch the sights, sounds, smells and flavors of the U.S. in his music-one reason that documentary moviemakers like Pare Lorentz...
Butler did everything he could to insure himself against such a succumbing. In his bachelor apartment in London, he hoarded his independence like a miser. From behind this barricade he attacked every idea that he disliked, kept all distractions at arm's length. He had a French mistress, Mme. Lucie Dumas, for 20 years, during 15 of which he was too careful even to tell her what his name...