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Some swap offers sound too good to be true. A resident of Turtle Cove, Jamaica, is willing to turn over his four-bedroom house with private beach, swimming pool set in a natural garden, car, dinghy and sailboat, plus the services of a butler, cook, maid and gardener. He wants in exchange a big-city apartment. And he will settle for any one of six cities-New York, London, Paris, Rome, Madrid and Geneva. But he is choosy. After thumbing through dozens of offers, he still has not found one sumptuous enough to suit him. Time is running short...
...Dell's Balance and David Meneghal's Brazen are fine comic parts. In a moment of inspiration, Chapman Laurence Senetlick in the relatively minor role of Simpkins, and Senelick's sniggering, swaggering portrayal of the only poor man who lines up with the bourgeoisie (he's Justice Balance butler) justifies him. Simpkins' description of Bunker Hill is one of the highlights of the evening...
...West." Economic collectivization is inevitable. But it has begun in America without conscious planning, and the power of economic decision now rests with bureaucratic corporations rather than with the democratic mass most profoundly affected. Slogging his way toward these conclusions, Author Harrington quotes everyone from Hannah Arendt to William Butler Yeats, analyzes the novels of Thomas Mann, the philosophy of Nietzsche, the mysticism of Dostoevsky. Curiously lacking are any references to Alexis de Tocqueville and Karl Jaspers, who have already covered much of this embattled ground...
...some of the courts have gone to seed, but Southampton still sets the most grueling social pace in the nation. On a good night, as many as seven cocktail parties run simultaneously, and $2,000 buffets for 100 people, usually catered by Mrs. William Randolph-Hearst's former butler, are more a rule than an exception. Complains Paris Match's New York Correspondent Stéphane Groueff: "The problem
...busy to do big ones." He's still busy. In two current hits, he plays Jack Lemmon's bon vivant butler in How To Murder Your Wife and the villainous Sir Percy Ware-Armitage in Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines. Terry-Thomas has another film about to be released and a fourth scheduled. Making an appearance last week as a TV narrator, he injected some sly Saxon humor into an ABC documentary on gambling by extolling the outdoor life of the English racing tout: "Ah, the fine, crisp crinkle of pound notes in the clean...