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...Roland) Lancaster is an elderly, gangling man with a "raddled old face." Elsa is an untidy drifter of 28, thirty years his junior and fond of reminding him of it. Ro wants to while away the day talking about the years when he was a famous U.S. newspaperman; Elsa wants to spout her own grievances, including how she meant to write a novel but had twins by a bandleader instead. Ro and Elsa have come to Havana to make love, with a view to marriage, but when he touches her, she starts to protest...
...days, though, the Pole was the top of the world for Barber, who has flown 1,000,000 miles since 1953 on assignments that sent him tracking Stanley's route through Africa, exploring a Moroccan smuggling trail, catching an Elsa Maxwell party in the Aegean and a Russian bullet in Budapest. Correspondent Barber, a sandy-haired 46, filed happily about the cold, the hazards, the food, the preparations for welcoming the Hillary expedition from New Zealand (see SCIENCE). He also told how he planted a homemade Union Jack at the Pole. One angle that escaped him: the long-established...
...intermission she locked herself in her dressing room with her friend, Gossipist Elsa Maxwell, and sobbingly told opera officials outside her door that she could not go on. Because Callas herself had refused to have an understudy at rehearsal, the management had no choice but to cancel the rest of the performance. Cracked an American in the audience: "After this Casta Diva, they may just cast a diva into the Tiber...
Before some 2,000,000 enraptured viewers, Elsa has called Confidential Publisher Robert Harrison "a sewer rat," and allowed that "I have always wanted a falsie more than anything else in my life." Once Spinster Maxwell confessed that she "would just love to have a baby." M.C. Paar cringed and murmured a coast-to-coast aside: "Our first exclusive...
Cute Girls. Cigar-smoking Elsa, a spry and engaging 74, is an aimless guest on Paar's weeknight show (11:15 p.m. to 1 a.m.), and he may lose her to other commitments. Still, Paar seems to have collected enough Paar-snips and talented showfolk to rescue NBC from the debacle of its late America after Dark show and save Tonight for many another day. Though Tonight is still a money-losing proposition for NBC, 76 stations now carry the show instead of taking the craven's way out with old movies. In last fortnight alone, Paar...