Word: dahl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today, not surprisingly, Hollywood contains the two astrologers best known for their "personal work." Carroll Righter, 62, has numbered among his clients such notables as Clark Gable, Lana Turner, Tyrone Power, Peter Lawford, Marlene Dietrich, Dick Powell, Van Johnson, Arlene Dahl, and Maria Montez (a prize exhibit because she was warned in 1951 that the first week of September, an adverse time in her chart, would bring her danger from water, and drowned in her bathtub on Sept. 7). Righter's rival is veteran Stargazer Blanca Holmes, who boasts her own long list of big names, including the late...
...Birds, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Pantheon; $3), achieves unpatronizing verse. The poet knows enough about chickadees to know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter, a magic peach big enough to house a boy and a whole bestiary, is perhaps on the squashy side...
ARTHUR L. DAHL Pebble Beach, Calif...
...Novelist Roald Dahl has adapted his short story William and Mary, about the eerie re venge of a browbeaten wife, as the first offering in a new series intended to exploit eccentric stories...
...Marjorie Merriweather Post Close Hutton Davies May, apostolic descendant of Mrs. Stotesbury, presided at the Red Cross benefit dance, doing her best to be the Great Galvanizer of a diversifying society. Elsa Maxwell was in town, collecting tidbits, people and invitations. Actress Arlene Dahl, new wife of Rancher-Oilman Christian Holmes, admitted that she was having a fine time trying the supposedly impossible: a walk on the tightrope between cafe society and "real" society...