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...Adventures of Augie March. In his latest adventures, Author Bellow suggests that money is not only the root of all evil but also of all plot. "Money," muses one character who doesn't have any, "surrounds you in life as the earth does in death." Tommy Wilhelm, the fortyish hero of the title story, has a mind as empty as his pocket. Unemployed, dunned by his estranged wife, rebuffed by his wealthy father, he has hypnotically turned over his last $700 to Dr. Tamkin, a swindler so transparent that even Tommy sees through him. When the money vanishes Tommy...
Divorced. Martha Raye, fortyish, frenetic TV comedienne (The Martha Raye Show); by her fifth husband, long-maned TV Chorus Boy Edward Thomas Begley, 32; after two years of marriage, no children ; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...door and gave the Toronto Star's 33-year-old roving newsman 24 hours to get out of Egypt. Also expelled for spreading "falsehoods and fabrications to mislead public opinion": the London Evening Standard's pretty Anne Sharpley, 26, and the London Daily Mail's fortyish Eileen Travis, a U.S. citizen. That made a total of five correspondents sent packing since Egypt seized the Suez Canal...
Broken Hope. It is not so much fear as despair that haunts Judith Hearne, following her like a faithful cur from one dreary Belfast bedsitting room to another. She is fortyish in a land where a good man is not only hard to find, but for an aging, long-faced music teacher with no more than a hundred pounds a year to her name, downright impossible...
...Birth of a Nation." Last week the government cracked down again. The victim: seasoned, fortyish Newshen...