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...lines his studio with aluminum wrap, paints his hair silver, and devotes eight hours of "underground movies" to such hitherto unexplored subjects as the depths of man's sleep or the height of the Empire State Building. Edie Sedgwick is his constant companion, an electric elf whose flashing chocolate-colored eyes and skittish psyche make her a perfect star for his slow-moving movies...
...Davies that way. But that was the Ziegfeld era in the Pleistocene epoch. Modern Broadway is different. Chorus lines, even in musicals, are depleted, and those old self-made audience libertines have turned into relatively timid expense-account types who go, in a big verbal way, for the unattainable elf of the smash light comedy -the bright and blue-jeaned breed of girl that can make a man of 50 start reading the Village Voice...
...Impudent Elf. The week was a fine one all round for the U.S., whose amateur tennis fortunes have sunk abysmally low in recent years. Unseeded Billie Jean Moffit, 19, an impudent elf from California, trounced Australia's No. 2-seeded Lesley Turner, Brazil's No. 7-seeded Maria Bueno, and Brit ain's No. 3-seeded Ann Haydon Jones, and found herself playing Australia's top-seeded Margaret Smith in the women's finals. Not bad for a girl who could hardly see her own racket without her glasses on. No matter what happened next...
...creation of an Empire-wide economic union; he admits cheerfully that he bought the then bankrupt Daily Express for this "sole and only purpose." He realized that he would never convert Lloyd George to the cause of Empire free trade. So, working behind the scenes like a Machiavellian elf, Beaverbrook applied his charm, wealth and printing presses to the destruction of his old colleague...
...Machine has already sold more than $14 million worth since it first strode across TV screens in 1960. Glass pays his 25 designers between $18,000 and $30,000 a year, but being an elf in Santa Glass's workshop involves more hard work than ho, ho, ho. Staff designers are expected to work 14 hours a day, six days a week; during crucial periods, Glass locks them in their rooms and does not allow them to speak to one another...