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...Delia Chodash...
...radio networks, in fact, require that celebrities have at least some allegiance to the products that they claim to enjoy. So have many ad agen cies. Jerry Delia Femina, who handles the Teacher's Scotch account, dealt pragmatically with the problem. When Groucho Marx, Jimmy Breslin, Mel Brooks, Tommy Smothers, et al, agreed to appear in Teacher's ads, his agency started sending them two cases of Scotch a month. And it takes no suspension of disbelief to credit Whitey Ford and Mickey Mantle with downing a great deal of Lite Beer...
...whether she should be den mother or kid sister to the squad room, and they really ought to come up with a characterization more novel than either of those. In any event, neither Christie nor Pepper has much more dimension than Perry Mason's old sidekick, Delia Street. They've got a long way to go, baby. " · Richard Schickel
Across the world, the public is still struggling to get a handle on the new U.S. leader. European commentators have generally tried to find Ford parallels in Harry Truman. Ettore Delia Giovanna, 61, Italian television's version of Eric Sevareid, has been presenting the President as "a noble expression of the average American-that average American which has made America great and powerful." Like many U.S. newsmen, European editors have dwelt more or less heavily on Ford's supposed lack of intellectual heft...
...gift is flawlessly demonstrated in the title story from Christmas Eve, Maeve Brennan's first book in five years. Tis the night before Christmas, in a cramped suburban house in Dublin. The husband, Martin, stands downstairs in the hall, listening to his wife Delia putting their two small girls to bed. Between husband and wife are the stairs and the dark length of the hall, containing a coatrack, an umbrella stand and a chair. "Nobody ever sat on the chair and nobody ever stood long in the hall," Brennan writes. "It was a passageway-not to fame...