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What emerges from Jean's book is the fact that a poet's life is infinitely more dangerous than that of a steeple jack. Of her poet friends, nearly a dozen killed themselves one way or another. Elfin Elinor Wylie did it by burning the candle at both ends; Vachel (The Congo) Lindsay made a more gruesome exit by drinking a bottle of Lysol...
Divorced. Leslie Caron, 33, elfin French film star (The L-Shaped Room, Father Goose); by Peter Hall, 34 director-producer of London's Royal Shakespeare Company, her second husband (her first: Chicago Meat Heir George "Geordie" Hormel II): on uncontested grounds of adultery with Hollywood Actor Warren Beatty, who was ordered to pay court costs: after nine years of marriage, two children; in London...
...true that Lohr, an elfin man who at 73 still runs the museum, shamelessly believes in the old showman's rule of "Ya gotta get 'em in the tent." Every exhibit clamors for the attention of the passing public-and then goes on to hammer real knowledge into the heads of people ranging in age, as Lohr puts it, "from two to toothless." The museum, which just received its 50 millionth visitor, is probably the world's biggest institution of informal, nonobligatory mass scientific education...
Principally responsible for the B. & O.C. & O. merger is C. & O. President Walter Tuohy, who this week also becomes chairman of the B. & O. Tuohy, 62, an elfin onetime coal salesman who outmaneuvered New York Central President Alfred Perlman in persuading B. & O. stockholders to join with him instead of Central, plans to save $50 million annually by integrating operations. Seaboard President John W. Smith will run the new Seaboard Coastline Railroad, which hopes ultimately to save $38 million yearly, partly by eliminating 4,200 jobs along its frequently overlapping routes...
...most popular Tory leaders, elfin-faced, effervescent Viscount Hailsham, last week followed the example of former Lord Home, signed away his titles and became the Right Honorable Quintin Hogg. Leaving the "political ghetto" of the House of Lords, he will probably be elected to Commons from St. Marylebone, a solidly Tory, London constituency. "Lord Hail-sham," said he, "is dead. God bless Quintin Hogg...