Word: bon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...write books these days," laments Russell Baker. Nightclub humor-what there is of it-is also in bad shape. San Francisco's hungry i, where many comedians got their start, has been hurt by the bare-bosom boom; Manhattan's Blue Angel is defunct; and the Bon Soir, where cerebral comedians once gamboled, now has a noncomic policy. The comic strips, too, are in a generally deplorable state, two notable exceptions being Schulz's Peanuts and Al Capp's Li'l Abner...
...Rubinstein became a new idol. Everywhere, audiences clamored fqr him, and the critics threw superlatives at his fingers. During World War II, he moved his family to Hollywood, bought a rambling 15-room mansion next door to Ingrid Bergman and soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing...
...managing editor Kozaburo Iga explained that his cover, titled "The Secret of Glory," was a "symbolic composite meant to congratulate the French President on his good health and a good healthy appetite." And the glorious girl? Well, said Iga, "she is merely showing her big appetite too." Bon...
...finish up a profile of Robert Coles with a neat "tag" is like trying to compress his concerns into a bon mot: you can not do it, because as a man and as a psychiatrist he avoids above all things the isolated category and the final answer. It all hangs together: the desire to report faithfully, to understand, to see the good or bad never on one side only, and to cure. Like Agee, he wants to make his eyes and voice "honest and a little clear." So watch him, and men like him; watch them, listen to them, think...
...minded. For one thing, they made sensational copy for his scurrilous, scandalous Town Topics. For another, the publicity-shy Four Hundred provided him with a lucrative sideline: Publisher Mann was the nation's most notorious blackmailer. He was also a Civil War hero, a talented inventor and a bon vivant. Nearly forgotten since his death in 1920, he re-emerges in this witty, engaging biography by The New Yorker's Andy Logan as a prize addition to the gang of robber barons...