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...degree, Jay went to Yale to learn Chinese, then joined the advisory council of the Peace Corps. Two years ago, deciding that he knew too little "about the American people," he became a neighborhood poverty worker in Emmons, W. Va., at $6,400 a year. Wearing cheap denim trousers and shirts, he sought the trust of the poor and, despite his name, obviously gained it. He entered the race for West Virginia's House only after soliciting his future father-in-law's advice-and won it handily...
Contretemps into Triumphs. What keeps her fans turning on her TV show is the same thing that sent their grandparents to the movie theaters to watch The Perils of Pauline: suspense. For from the moment that Julia appears on the screen, sleeves rolled above the elbow and blue denim apron about her waist, until her closing "Bon appetit," there is no telling what calamity may confront...
...distracting. One recent performance by the Municipal Concerts Orchestra was so bombarded by the thumping, amplified rock 'n' roll of The Young Rascals near by that, for many listeners, Schubert's Unfinished became Schubert's Unheard. More often, however, musical textures from silk to denim mingle as harmoniously as their motley adherents, thousands of whom are experiencing for the first time the special pleasures of music against a backdrop of lakes, trees and the glittering towers surrounding the park. As Municipal Concerts Conductor Julius Grossman says, "The more sophisticated and the less sophisticated are coming...
...screaming diesel that was California-bound"--the Cheers' "Black Denim Trousers and Motorcycle Boots...
Died. June Walker, 65, who flapped her way to fame in 1926 as the first Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, demonstrated her versatility by playing everything from a brassy prostitute in Waterloo Bridge to a doting mother in Blue Denim; of emphysema; in Sherman Oaks, Calif...