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...ultimately pays with her life for choosing the wrong husband, Broadway's Joanna Pettet etches a jittery, wounding image of pride slowly strangled. As Libby, the frigid literary snob, Jessica Walter unreels bits of the yarn through hearsay, as only a cat can. As Dottie, a staid Bostonian who decides to let a casual acquaintance seduce her, Joan Hackett intuitively lights up every scene she is in. And Shirley Knight, as Polly, reads gentle truth into every word and gesture. Leading the second rank, Candice Bergen, as the Lesbian "Lakey," is a stunning presence. Most important...
Married. Joan Hackett, 30, rising Broadway comedienne (Peterpat), currently cast as Dottie Renfrew, a Bostonian of uncertain virtue, in the upcoming film version of Mary McCarthy's The Group; and Richard Mulligan, 33, her leading man; he for the second time; in Manhattan...
From his tweeds to his twang, Saltonstall is every inch a Brahmin-the last of the Massachusetts species in high elective office. Tall and erect, with the kind of homeliness that radiates integrity, Salty is famed among Senate colleagues for the Bostonian virtues of unfailing courtesy and caution. On one occasion, when asked by a reporter for his opinion on a foreign policy issue, the taciturn Senator replied: "No comment, and that's off the record...
...years, Publisher George C. Kirstein had been shelling out his own money to keep the liberal weekly Nation alive. As a staffer put it, "It was time for a new charity." Last week James J. Storrow Jr., 49, a Bostonian who has made a small fortune from film and food companies, took over the burden from Kirstein. "The posture of a dissenter is not a profitable one," the new publisher conceded. "One does not grow rich by shooting sacred cows...
...Scripto Inc., the world's third largest maker of writing instruments (1964 sales: $25 million), has under gone all three changes - without the firing of a single key executive. The man who did the trick is Scripto's new president, Carl N. Singer, 48, a ruddy-faced Bostonian who has revitalized once ailing Scripto since he went South in 1964. Last week Scripto reported the results of Singer's reforms: in 1965's first nine months, sales rose 13%, profits...