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PINKTOES by Chester Himes. 256 pages. Putnam-Stein...
...aiding and abetting two-tone cohabitation as widely and as often as possible among her vast collage of acquaintances. As a single, running, off-color joke, the novel turns out to be neither very funny nor very dirty. The level of its humor is set by Negro Author Chester Himes in a laboriously arch preface that explains that "pinktoes is a term of indulgent affection applied to white women by Negro men, and sometimes conversely by Negro women to white men, but never adversely by either." Sample line: "Her moments of tender intimacy with a big fine white...
...Major General Chester V. (Ted) Clifton, military aide to President Johnson as he was to President Kennedy, is retiring from the Army even though he is only 51. Succeeding him will be Air Force Major James U. Cross, 40, pilot of the President's JetStar since February...
Died. Robert Chester Ruark, 49, author and columnist, a North Carolina backwoods boy who began as a sportswriter for the Washington Daily News, in 1946 caught the eye of Scripps-Howard Boss Roy Howard and was given a daily (later thrice weekly) column eventually syndicated in 104 U.S. newspapers, in which he stated his tough-guy opinions on everything from women's fashions to modern art, reserving his most abrasive insights for Africa in two race-baiting bestsellers (Something of Value, Uhuru) about Kenya, from which he was then barred in 1962; of internal hemorrhages; in London...
...Married. Chester Conklin, 78, known to oldtime moviegoers as the walrus-mustachioed Keystone Kop; and June Gunther, 65, sometime movie actress; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...