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...question pertains to the excerpt from a letter written by T. H. White to Richard Burton regarding Camelot: "I hope it will be borozonic." I assume it is a word coined by White and am curious as to its meaning and origin...
EDITOR'S NOTE: The following article, an excerpt from Professor Tillich's informal report on his recent lecture trip to Japan, appears by special permission of Dr. Tillich. The full report was not intended for general circulation...
...July-dated issue of Motion Picture, Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper wrote a bare-fanged ''open letter" to Cinemactress Marilyn Monroe. Excerpt: ''Have you a complex about losing babies? You lost two unborn children, one in 1958 and the other in 1959. Is it true that, in sorrow, you even put vodka into your bouillon?* Marilyn, don't drink . . . It won't bring back the baby...
Thus, in a Look Magazine excerpt from his new book, Mr. Citizen, Harry Truman this week explains his longstanding dislike of Adlai Stevenson, and at the same time, takes a neatly timed swipe at Stevenson's chances for the 1960 nomination. He agreed to support Stevenson in 1952, he says, but he was sorry afterward. Stevenson's campaign, Truman claims, drifted so far from the Democratic program of Franklin Roosevelt (and Harry Truman) that it cost the party at least 3,000,000 votes. Before the convention in 1956, Truman goes on, "I tried as gently...
Nikita began the assault at a reception in the Czech embassy in Moscow, where he rambled and rumbled his grievances. Excerpt: "When Twining, the then chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, arrived here [in 1956] we welcomed him as a guest and entertained him. He left our country by air and next day sent a plane flying at great altitude to our country. This plane flew as far as Kiev . . . Only an animal might act like Twining, eating at a place, then doing its unpleasant business there...