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...apart from his first wife for much of his life. He preferred to lead a flock of people deeply attached to him. His second wife was one of the Walter sisters, Jean, whom he married less than two years before his death at 80. She was the model for Delia Street. Sam Hicks, an all-round outdoorsman, also devoted his life to Gardner; he was transmogrified into Paul Drake. This nucleus was joined by a large assortment of pretty women and hunting pals. They sometimes camped out in the desert, especially in Gardner's beloved Baja California...
Amos, who was the first black talent agent to be hired by William Morris, fell upon hard times in Los Angeles and rose again on his Aunt Delia's recipe for guess-what. Thanks to salivating promotion, he is baking six tons of his Famous Amos cookies each week at a factory in Nutley, N.J., and his original shop on Sunset Boulevard; the chewy entremets are sold in bon ton stores from Bloomingdale's to Neiman-Marcus, J.L. Hudson's to Robinson...
Neruda's life through the 1950s and '60s was much less eventful than his first 40 years. He divorced his wife of 18 years, Delia del Carril, and moved in with Mathilde Urrutia, about whom he wrote The Captain's Verses. That work went unsigned for many years not, as some critics said, because the CP disapproved but because, Neruda explains in the Memoirs, the passionate love for Urrutia he splashed throughout The Captain's Verses would have caused his wife unnecessary and harsh anguish...
...name that is not changed: Delia Smith Allen, her grandmother, to whose memory Ray dedicates her book...
...inscrutable -and skeptical-than ever. They tend to press for the safe old selling ways of the '50s, when the focus was squarely on the product, often to the exclusion of humor, mood or elegance. The clients also insist on more research. Says Jerry Della Femina, head of Delia Femina Travisano & Partners, who is currently working up ads for Emery Air Freight, a forwarder: "Everything is tested, usually in small cities instead of big markets to hold down marketing expenditures...