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...time of the expropriation decree, the sugar had already been sold to a U.S. commodity broker, Farr, Whitlock & Co., but C.A.V. had not yet received payment. Before the Castro authorities would let the ship clear Cuban waters, Farr, Whitlock had to agree to pay the Cuban government for the sugar. Later on, after the cargo was delivered to its destination in Morocco, Farr, Whitlock found itself confronted with two insistent claimants. The Castro government, acting through a New York agent, demanded its money. So did the surviving corporate shell of C.A.V...
...savor hunks of meat and chicken, licking their fingers and biting sensuously into ripe fruit until they cannot stand it any more and run upstairs for dessert. In Hollywood last week, it was Jack Lemmon, writer at Universal Pictures, and his secretary, played by his handsome wife, Felicia Farr. Entering his office in a very low-cut dress, she picked up an envelope and licked it, then licked a stamp. Then she ate a pencil, slowly. Lemmon ate a pencil. Then they both started eating erasers, blotters, letter openers, a telephone, never taking their eyes off one another...
...sure to be broken. None of the four is likely to become a practicing lawyer, and it is something of a tradition for defeated G.O.P. presidential nominees to join big Wall Street law firms. After losing to F.D.R. in 1940, Wendell Willkie entered the partnership now named Willkie Farr Gallagher Walton & Fitzgibbon. In 1955 Tom Dewey joined Ballantine, Bushby, Palmer & Wood, which promptly renamed itself Dewey, B., B., P. & W. Richard Nixon has joined Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd, and the firm has changed its handle to Nixon, Mudge, Rose, Guthrie & Alexander...
...meantime, American atomic submarines polish off the hidden evil Russians, foiling their scheme for world domination. But this is secondary to the miracles of personality transformation that take place underground. With endless fanfare and speeches, Farr gives up his mistress and his wife gives up the bottle; the Japanese engineer and the Chinese student get together--but only after a painfully long dissertation on tolerance and race prejudice; the Vassar girl becomes very attached to a meter-reader and undertakes his education (he's really very bright); Farr's mistress proves that she has a heart of gold. Finally, after...
Nobody in America survives, with the exception of 14 people in millionaire Vance Farr's plush fallout shelter. They form a fascinating group. With Farr himself, there is his alcoholic wife; a Jewish physicist; Farr's lovely daughter; a Japanese engineer; a Chinese 'Cliffie; an electric company meter-reader; a Negro house man and his lovely daughter (a Vassar graduate); Farr's latest mistress, her real lover--the list continues, and continues. Not content with saving a handful of people Wylie insists on a whole regiment. Indeed he has little choice: with so many themes to handle, he needs...