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Living Poor. His wife Henny is a ravaged beauty when the book begins. Bred to wealth, she despises Sam for making her live poor and for playing the "little tin Jesus." She spends her life cursing him, beating her babies, kissing them better, robbing their piggy banks, fighting off loan sharks, sneaking off to see a stupid lover and viciously cheating at solitaire. She ages disastrously. Halfway through the book she is "a black-eyed, feverishly rouged hag with blazing yellow skin" and a mind that is slowly coming apart...
After 15 Lbs. In 1946 the born-and-bred New Yorker chose acting as the easiest thing to do on the G.I. Bill sides the Dramatic Workshop was then near Madison Square Garden, and "I didn't want to miss too many events." At the moment, having lost bringing in Odd Couple, Matthau considers acting "the hardest job known to mankind," and he works and worries his craft to unusual perfection...
...point of becoming routine and outdatedly slow-good enough for such bread-and-butter missions as re laying messages, photographing the moon, measuring micrometeoroid impact, sending space vehicles past Venus and Mars, monitoring radiation and watching the earth's weather. For the first manned Gemini mission, scientists have bred a new generation of fuels designated "hypergolic"-powerful liquids that explode on contact with one another but require no delicate refrigeration for storage...
...DANNY KAYE SHOW (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Enzo Stuarte is no Irish tenor, and neither is Imogene Fernandez y Coca, but both join Brooklyn-bred Leprechaun Danny Kaye (born Kominsky) in a celebration of St. Patrick's Day. Thursday, March...
Northwestern University's placement director. "The others are 'personnel' and 'public relations.' " Among the hottest jobs are computer-bred positions in market research, finance, and economic analysis, which often open rapid routes...