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...More Fling. Last week Wall Street market analysts who have the best record for forecasting recent economic gyrations agreed that the behavior of the Dow-Jones index is decidedly not signaling a recession in the next few months. "What we've been seeing," insists Edmund W. Tabell of Walston & Co., "is more of a correction of a ridiculously high market than an anticipation of a downturn in business." James F. Hughes of Auchincloss, Parker & Redpath is equally certain that "people are getting prematurely bearish. The market has one more fling...
...retired Enfant Terrible of Broadway, now 62. took time off from filling out his collection of A.T.&T. shares (with 80,000, worth roughly $11 million, he is now the company's second biggest stockholder) to swell his collection of marriage licenses to four. For his latest fling at matrimony, Billy chose a familiar partner: ex-Showgirl Joyce Mathews, 42. to whom he was previously married from 1956 to 1959. (His first two wives: the late Fanny Brice and Big Dipper Eleanor Holm.) For Joyce, even a nuptial doubleheader was no novelty, two of her four earlier flounces...
...humor are broken off unexpectedly by passages approaching the drunken, frenzied poetry of a Rimbaud. Obscurity and philosophy, squalor and rhapsody are juxtaposed, crammed together, torn apart and tossed wildly, as if the book were the mixing bowl in which Miller, the mad chef, were preparing a salad -- to fling in the face of the diners. But not even in obscenity or nihilistic frenzy do we find a bit of solid ground. Obsence protests are continually undercut by a laugh, despair by a ray of happy contentedness; even the ferocious prophecies of the impending consummation of decay give...
...claims she is 40) like to think. In Paradise they are cast as a couple of gay young things in their middle 303, but the moving finger has inexorably written lines that contradict the ones they have to say. Their first fine rapture actually suggests a desperate last fling, their romantic moments sometimes seem mildly necromantic. The script, in any case, is guaranteed to make actors age rapidly. Almost every line in the picture ("I call this cocktail a bikini-there's not much to it but it hits the right spots") might serve as an epitaph for laughter...
...parkway near Berlin. Summer vacations Mike worked for a Puerto Rican supermarket or worked as a hand on the Rockefellers' Venezuelan ranch. He knew he would have to settle down, and he pointed toward Harvard Business School and a career in finance. But first, he wanted one real fling. Graduating cum laude in 1960, Mike spent six months in the Army, then signed on with an expedition into New Guinea's back country sponsored by Harvard's Peabody Museum. "It's the desire to do something romantic and adventurous," he explained, "at a time when frontiers...