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...String Enterprise." Called Pull My Daisy, the film is written and narrated by Jack Kerouac, the least dreary of the Beat writers. The cast is drawn from the highest level of Beat society; Poets Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Peter Orlovsky all play themselves. As a result, the first pure-Beat movie gives an authentic impression of beatnik habits and tastes...
Mickey Rooney celebrated the first wedding anniversary of his fifth marriage, with a fifth. Instead of rolling on home to sleep it off, he kept another date, showed up for a guest appearance on the Jack Paar Show, now visiting Hollywood. Jack, amiably bringing to mind Mickey's previous four marriages, asked: "What was Ava Gardner really like?" Replied Mickey: "Well, Mr. Paar, may I say this, she is more woman than you will ever know...
Skin cancer from exposure of the face, neck and hands to sun and wind was first described by Germany's Paul G. Unna in 1894 as Seemanns-haut. A dozen years later, William Dubreuilh made an observational refinement in the Bordeaux vineyards : women got skin cancer on the parts of their faces left exposed by their scarves, while men got it on the back of the neck. In the U.S., 91% of skin cancer is on the hands, face and neck, 2% is on "occasionally exposed" sites, and 6.5% on sites never ordinarily exposed...
...Dallas last week, selected as "Family Doctor of the Year" Dr. Chesley M. Martin, 70, native of South Carolina, who has practiced in Elgin, Okla. (pop. 450 by his best estimate) since 1915, has delivered about 2,500 babies in 1,200 sq. mi. of ranch country. At first he made house calls on horseback, graduated to what he calls a "T-model" within a year. Dr. Martin rarely charges more than $2 for an office visit, dispenses his own drugs, described his plans for retirement in a word: none...
...Anderson) tells of two people in a New England inn on Christmas Eve. Strangers in adjacent rooms-Barbara Bel Geddes has a son in a prep-school infirmary near by, Henry Fonda a wife in a mental sanitarium up the hill-they come together out of loneliness, are at first trivially autobiographical, then more and more confidingly so. They have a drink with newlyweds, look back on marriage that has come to grief, resist pity and show twinges of self-pity, talk of love and resist sex. The woman, it turns out, has an unfaithful husband...