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...Columnist-TV Impresario Ed Sullivan, 57, who, having taped enough of his Sunday evening shows to last out the summer, was mending in a Manhattan hospital after removal of a chronic duodenal ulcer that had plagued him for some 25 years; Driver Stirling Moss, 30, bedded in a London hospital with two broken legs, a broken nose and a crushed vertebra after cracking up in a practice spin for the Belgian Grand Prix-but promising, as befits the world's best hell-for-rubber speed merchant, that he will go "straight back to racing" when his injuries heal...
...what made the Twenties roar (The Tattooed Countess, Nigger Heaven), twelve other books about music and himself, a definitive tome on cats (The Tiger in the House)-and all manner of critical essays, including some on photography, a durable interest in which versatile Van Vechten still excels. Still a chronic essayist, Van Vechten turned 80 last week and was honored by the New York Public Library as one of its chief benefactors, donor of many literary treasures that he has collected over the years. His name is the yoth to be carved in stone in New York City...
...total employment to 67,208,000, reported the Labor Department this week. Unemployment dropped seasonally by 201,000-to 3,459,000-pushing the number of unemployed in the U.S. work force below the 5% barrier (to 4.9%) for the first time in a year. Even more encouraging, the chronic sore spot of unemployment-those jobless for 15 weeks or more-fell 300,000 to about 900,000 in May; nearly half of those now seeking work have been out of jobs less than five weeks. Matched with these heartening employment statistics was an improvement in another important indicator: after...
...generation novel in which the generation is ceaseless, the dialogue deathless, and the drink strong at all times. Novelist Robinson populates his pages with gamblers, gypsies, whores, cutpurses, counterfeiters, country maidens, Mafia men. Harvard professors, necrophiles, lesbians, and good, honest Indiana farmers. He afflicts them variously with lust, greed, chronic childbirth, madness, lung surgery and death by water, gunshot, prolonged beating and Addison's disease. As it is customary for costume novelists to concern themselves also with a certain amount of factual information-the politics of Lorenzo's court, or the intra-igloo mores of Eskimos-Robinson acquaints...
Prowling around Manhattan's Greenwich Village one afternoon on that chronic mission of New Yorkers, hunting for an apartment, a TV director named Michael Gargiulo was approached by a young man with the furtive but intense air of a dirty-postcard salesman. "You looking for an apartment?" he muttered hopefully. Gargiulo acknowledged that he was, and the young man promptly offered to sublet his own one-bedroom diggings at a bargain rental. But the apartment was too small for Gargiulo, and he strolled on-only to run into two more apartment dwellers with subletting bargains to offer. By coincidence...