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Last month, on the set of The Misfits, a screenplay written for Poopsie by Popsie, the Millers were cooler toward each other than the two halves of a popsicle. They returned last week to Manhattan on separate planes. With word of the coming divorce, there was no mention of other people or other plans. The man who wrote Death of a Salesman seemed simply to have had all he could take of the world of the cinema. Said the re-educated Miller: "I've had Hollywood...
...Rocky Mountains, a giant tractor eased a six-room house along a steep, narrow road. As workmen loaded another house onto a huge steel trailer, a foreman shouted to the anxious bystanders, "Don't you worry, folks, the coffee you left behind will be a bit cooler when it gets there, but not a drop will be spilled...
...lied about his age and spent two weeks in uniform before his mother took him home. Noting all this, Harry Sahl began pondering a military career for Mort-a secure field one or two light-years from show business-and initiated what might have been one of the cooler footnotes to military history when he got a Congressman to agree to give Mort an appointment to the U.S. Military Academy. Mort Sahl at West Point seems roughly twice as hard to imagine as Dwight D. Eisenhower (West Point, '15) rapping out bi-nightly monologues in a cave on Sunset...
...with Mantle for seven years, roomed with him for two, and held a front-office job from 1957 to 1960. "Mickey finds the booing terribly hard to take. He becomes defiant and throws bats and flips his helmet and bangs his fist into brick walls and kicks the water cooler. If Mickey strikes out twice, I think he gets so sore at himself and the fans who are on him he almost says, 'All right, I'll show you. I'll strike out a third time.' And the worse things go, the more the fans...
Altaian's hoped that the out-at-the-elbows look might fit in the trend toward cooler, lighter, more comfortable men's wear. It was a long reach. But like manufacturers and retailers all over the U.S., Altman's was taking no chances on passing up whatever the big-spending U.S. consumer might want. Anticipating his whims and angling for his taste were new trends running all the way from cars to corsets...