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Barney makes a last frantic stab at infidelity with the melancholic wife of one of his neighbors in suburban Great Neck. Now the positions are reversed. Barney, after his combat training, has become the manic aggressor; Jeanette Fisher is the coward, full of fear and un certainty. Barney finally bundles Jea nette into a cab, then goes to a phone booth to call his wife Thelma and in vite her down to Mom's for a romantic afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Frantic Fling | 7/24/1972 | See Source »

There might be Dayak matrons in the forests of Borneo, Noel Coward once wrote, who would reduce you to helpless laughter. There might also be unspeakably hilarious female Pygmies in the jungles of the Congo. But in our civilization, he concluded, Bea Lillie must be the funniest woman alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Blithe Spirit | 4/3/1972 | See Source »

...GENERAL WAS A SPY by HEINZ HOHNE and HERMANN ZOLLING 377 pages. Coward-McCann & Geoghegan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Dear Reinie | 3/13/1972 | See Source »

...acidulous prime, almost everybody had something to say about the country's most controversial neWWs-boy. To Ed Sullivan he was a "cringing coward"; to the California American Legion he was "America's No. 1 Patriot." Ben Hecht said he wrote "like a man honking in a traffic jam." H.L. Mencken lauded him as "an assiduous inventor and popularizer of new words and phrases." Lord Mountbatten and J. Edgar Hoover wrote him fan letters. Ethel Barrymore wondered, "Why is he allowed to live...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Mrs. Winchell's Little Boy | 3/6/1972 | See Source »

NATALIE/NATALIA by Nicholas Mosley. 316 pages. Coward, McCann & Geoghegan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Heavenly Bodies | 10/4/1971 | See Source »

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