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After a miserable childhood, an unsatisfying stint as a subeditor on a British trade paper (Gas World) and a so-so fling as a repertory actor-manager, John Osborne looked back on his 26 misspent years in anger. When he brooded about his estrangement from his mother and his wife (divorced by him for misconduct last week), he got even angrier. The manners and morals of Britain's middle class drove him to total fury. There was little left for him to do but take his violence to the public. So John Osborne sat down and wrote a play...
...Winter Garment of Repentance fling ... --OMAR KHAIYAM...
Slow Progress. Economist Villalbi's cure for these ills calls for a mixture of more freedom in some areas and more government control in others. He aims to brake the factory-building fling, concentrate instead on developing raw materials. To conserve the current supply of basic metals and coal, he wants to set up procurement priorities that would give the first choice to heavy industry. In hope of winning the support of businessmen, Villalbi has even promised that they will get a toe hold in the basic industries owned or controlled by the government...
...Hughes, 51, for more than a quarter-century Hollywood's most eligible (estimate: $200 million) catch, was snared at last. The winner: sometime Cinemactress Jean (It Happens Every Spring) Peters, 30, for ten years a close friend of Hughes's, not counting a year's marital fling in the interim with a Texas oilman...
Atlanta fretted about the dying winter's snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...