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...cocktail party near Frankfurt with her husband, U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Andrew Madsen. They drank bourbon-and-Coke, played "Pass the Kleenex,"*and Yvette twitted her Georgia-born host, another U.S. officer, on his Dixie drawl. "O.K.," responded the airman good-naturedly, "how do you say it in Brook-lynese?" Sensitive Yvette slapped the joker full in the face and demanded that her husband take her home immediately. Andy Madsen, a Californian, was too busy laughing to pay much attention. He tossed her the keys to the family car, and Yvette stormed out alone...
Though he cannot brook restraint or criticism and has quarreled with most close business associates, he cannot bear to be alone; he keeps himself surrounded by a circle of yes-men. They treat him with anxious concern, like veterinarians in a lion's cage. But McCarthy needs them-to mix him a drink, answer the telephone, nod when he speaks, to leap into a plane with him if he wants to go to New York, to Hollywood...
Covent Garden's 24-year-old Producer Peter Brook had warned that his new Salome "is not a production; it's an hallucination." A superconfident, baby-faced wonder boy who likes to shock, Brook had looked for a designer for the Royal Opera House's first Salome of its own since 1936 who could "reflect visually both the cold, fantastic imagery of Wilde's text and the hot eroticism of [the late Richard] Strauss's music." In mustached Surrealist Salvador Dali, he thought he had found his man. Gleefully, producer and designer hatched their plans...
Probable Winthrop starting lineup: le, Stein; lt, Horihan; lg, Southerland; c, Byrne; rg, Boardman; rt, Nathan; re, Bisbee; qb, Couch; lh, Brook; rh, Kelly; fb, Hernberg...
Winthrop was playing without the services of first string halfbacks Frank Hernberg and Pete Brook...