Word: charleye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Auchincloss (9) NONFICTION 1. The Rothschilds, Morton (1) 2. My Life in Court, Nizer (2) 3. Sex and the Single Girl, Brown (4) 4. O Ye Jigs & Juleps!, Hudson (5) 5. The Guns of August, Tuchman (3) 6. Who's in Charge Here?, Gardner (7) 7. Travels with Charley, Steinbeck (8) 8. One Man's Freedom, Williams (6) 9. Veeck - as in Wreck, Veeck (10) 10. Men and Decisions, Strauss...
...sight of husky New York cops ' dressed up as women to decoy nighttime muggers gave Manhattan newspaper feature writers their biggest outing in transvestite humor since Charley's Aunt. But the program, said New York's finest, has paid off with "remarkable success" (see THE NATION). Police Commissioner Michael Murphy was the first to give credit where credit is due: he was merely expanding on an idea tried out in St. Louis that the commissioner read about in TIME just last week...
TRAVELS WITH CHARLEY, by John Steinbeck (246 pp.; Viking; $4.95). Put a famous author behind the wheel of a three-quarter-ton truck called Rocinante (after Don Quixote's horse), equip him with everything from trenching tools to subzero underwear, send along a pedigreed French poodle named Charley with prostatitis. follow the man and dog on a three-month, 10,000-mile trip through 34 states, and what have you got? One of the dullest travelogues ever to acquire the respectability of a hard cover. Vagabond Steinbeck's motive for making the long, lonely journey is admirable...
Absent from Broadway since he gave Charley's Aunt a nimble whirl eleven years ago, Ray Bolger shows the toll of his own 58 years, not only in his froggily croaking voice, but in the dances that he pointedly sits out. Only in a second-act number called I'm Fascinating does he finally take the dance floor (and the house) with his eccentrically masterful specialty, the best-ever human imitation of a drunken penguin on ice. Top supporting honors go to Anita Gillette as a sex-hexed coed with a diaphanous sentence structure ("I desired his body...
Thus, the Crimson isn't even thinking about the championship. The Yale match will be a more interesting speculation. Word has it that in New Haven, Charley Nealy has returned after a year off to displace Ralph Howe at number one. With Bob Hetherington at number three, however, the H-Y match will feature familiar squash figures--Sullivan, Niederhoffer, and Walter, and Yale's Howe and Hetherington...