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...from Chicago, falls in love, finds out that he is married, runs away and becomes a famous fashion designer. When the handsome devil finds her again, he is revealed as anything but a gay seducer; he is in fact the all-American archetype of the mother's boyish male, a muddle husband with an alcoholic, homicidal wife (Vera Miles). Adultery thus spectacularly excused, massed violins take over and sweep the lovers away to a villa drowsing in jasmine by the passion-tossed Tyrrhenian, to a rose-covered cottage in the meadowy environs of Paris. "Just be with me whenever...
Bill Proxmire does nothing to discourage the picture of himself as the Senate's newest oddity-or oddest newity. A boyish, wiry man of 45, with twittering eyebrows and a well-modulated speaking voice, he rises every morning at 6, does 215 pushups, and stands on his head (to circulate the blood in the brain), then jogs two miles down Connecticut Avenue be fore catching a bus to Capitol Hill...
...Mormon missionaries are volunteers, and all Mormon young men are encouraged to serve (about 40% of them do). The usual term of service is two years in the U.S., 30 months when a foreign language must be learned. Typical of those now in Berlin is boyish, sandy-haired David Owens, 22, of Berkeley, Calif. He lives with a German family, in a cheap room, rises at 6 a.m. and meets his partner (Mormon missionaries generally work in pairs) for an hour's study of German, Scripture and lesson plans. At 9 they take to motor scooters for three hours...
...week's end the spaceman's boyish smile and unfailing modesty had conquered all Britain. Queen Elizabeth had him for lunch at Buckingham Palace, seating him in the place of honor on her right; Macmillan invited him to Admiralty House, after 20 minutes with Yuri pronounced him "a delightful fellow." A 23-year-old British nurse ambushed Yuri as he emerged from the Russian embassy, flung her arms around his neck for a solid kiss, proclaimed him "the most kissable man in the universe." Headline the Daily Mail: MAKE HIM SIR YURI...
Last Dec. 31 a boyish-looking real estate developer in Phoenix. Ariz., solemnly wrote down his 1961 New Year's resolution: to make his company a $100 million enterprise within the next five years. Even in Phoenix, whose postwar building boom has been among the nation's liveliest, the resolution was somewhat audacious. But such audacity has made David Murdock, at 38, the biggest builder in Arizona...