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...unlikely figure he is. A college dropout, he frequently talks like a tortured composite of Gertrude Stein, William Saroyan and Lord Keynes. "I am in the process of becoming," he says ?period. He boasts, with absolute seriousness, that "I have a rigidity of flexibility." His view of life?and business?is more akin to Diogenes than to Donner: "I believe in a paradoxical form of life. I don't believe anything is wholly right, but both right and wrong. There is a thin line between. There is a Chi nese proverb that 'Life is a search for truth...
...importunate years-she died in 1937 of uremic poisoning-was Jean Harlow so exploited as in this purported biography produced by Bill Sargent's Electronovision Inc. The real Harlow was jade of purest quality; Sargent's Carol Lynley plays her as a pale finishing-school dropout turned unfinished actress, capturing the walk but not the talk. And Lynley is appropriately supported. Ginger Rogers and Barry Sullivan are grotesquely grasping as her stage mother and stepfather; Efrem Zimbalist Jr., playing a counterfeit composite of Harlow's last costar, Clark Gable, and her last love, William Powell, seems more...
...Also Dropouts. Last week the man of the moment was Herman, 16, of Herman's Hermits. An engaging high school dropout who looks like a toy sheep dog, Herman (real name: Peter Noone) smiles a lot, claps his hands over his head, and sticks his finger in his mouth when he sings. His Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter, rendered in a heavy English Midlands accent, was the No. 1 bestseller last week. Right behind it was Count Me In by Gary Lewis and the Playboys. Gary is Comedian Jerry Lewis' son. Unfortunately, he favors an overdose...
...year. An amendment strengthening Colorado's housing act was approved by the state legislature last week, thanks largely to strong clerical pressure. This summer, the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York is vastly expanding a tutorial program in Harlem, run by professional educators, to help stem the school dropout rate; the schools will be open to children of all faiths, will operate in 30 centers...
...honorable discharge in December 1958 and went to Detroit. There he was approached by a Russian named Boris Karpovich, a Soviet embassy counselor in Washington who was kicked out of the U.S. in January. Boris told him to get a job with the FBI. Thompson, a high school dropout, said with rare perspicuity that he doubted the FBI would hire him. For nearly two years thereafter the Soviets left him alone...