Word: clan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Natural Clown. Shirley is a "fringie" (part-time member) of "The Clan," an exclusive, halfway-out social clique headed by Sinatra and Dean Martin, and she is still frankly delighted by their attentions. "I'm shy and introverted with them, and wondering if I'm doing the right thing," she says. "I wouldn't presume to try to be anything but myself with them." The Clan, in turn, treats her as a sort of mascot. Says Clansman Peter Lawford: "She's a guy, a funny girl, a natural clown." Says Dean Martin: "She's also...
...there are times when even The Clan cannot keep Shirley going, when she withdraws into a corner to stare at the wall or struggle with sudden tears, The Clan accepts this, too. Her sudden shifts of mood and attention are as striking offscreen as on. The core of her life, she insists, is her family, her Japan-based husband Steve Parker and her two-year-old daughter Stephanie. Friends still remember with a kind of awed surprise the evening she brought Steffie to a party, stuck the child in a wicker basket and put her in a closet to sleep...
...such evidence of her kookiness, a Clansman will shrug his shoulders and call her "a ring-a-ding," using a Clan word that stands for anything puzzling, hard to define, but generally wonderful...
...cowcatcher of another author's prose or poetry, bolted to the front of a book or chapter. And no novelist now working is better equipped to conduct a seminar on the technique than Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch. His current novel, about a moneyed San Francisco clan, has ten epigraphs-one at the beginning of each chapter. A Latin proverb assures doubters that the author is classically educated, a quotation from the San Francisco Examiner implies that his feet are solidly on the ground, a scrap from T. S. Eliot warns that there is subtle stuff ahead...
Bing Crosby Special (ABC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). Myopic viewers may think they are seeing double when sons Philip and Dennis come on to give Daddy a hand, but anyone can recognize the Old Groaner's voice. Jim (Maverick) Garner and Rosemary Clooney join the Crosby clan...