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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Standing 6 ft. 2 in., with a clipped British mustache and a clipped British accent, he has the look of a slightly heftier (210 Ibs.) Brian Donlevy. Offering the newsmen cigarettes and lemonade, he urged that no one worry about the deposed President because his good friend (and fellow graduate at Sandhurst) was being retired on a double pension and was leaving for Britain, as "it might be too embarrassing for him to stay here." Why had he fired Mirza? "Somehow or other, people felt that he was as much responsible for the political deterioration as anyone else." Besides...
There was some question whether Frankie was really quite well when he brusquely turned down an offer from Brigitte Bardot to go to London to discuss a movie. "I can't wait," said Frankie. "I gotta be in Boston. Senator Kennedy is a friend of mine, and I promised." Finally, Frankie made a return volant to the U.S., still determinedly withholding his paw sinister from the gold circlet that anyone might wish to slip on his finger...
...results. One was that a New Yorker now in his mid-70s wrote to the advertiser (the Radioactivity Center of M.I.T.) and told his story. About 30 years ago he was working as a salesman, playing the guitar for relaxation. When he began to feel run down, a friend suggested a radium tonic to pep him up. His doctor saw nothing against it-for these were the days when many medical men were playing fast and loose with radium preparations, knowing and recking nothing of the dangers.* The salesman dropped in at the plant in East Orange, NJ. where Radithor...
They rarely told him about department politics, but one evening, after a second brandy, Ford found himself saying that at a cocktail party Brockberg had said to him that his friend Greg was, well, without sufficient humor. Ford had thought he could state it less explicitly than that, but halfway through his sentance he realized that Greg already knew what he was going to say. Greg's eyes lit up with a look of disinterested amusement. Walking down the snowy sidewalk together afterwards, Ford apologized to Hall for his gaucherie, and Hall told him not to worry; Greg understood Brockberg...
...Real Phony. Breakfast at Tiffany's takes place, flashback-fashion, in 1943, and is full of stationary action: his room, her room, and a Lexington Avenue bar. His room contains Holly's Platonic friend, a fledgling writer whom she calls Buster. Holly's room contains unopened suitcases and unpacked crates frequently decorated with filled martini glasses, for in Holly's transient world, home is wherever one hangs one's hangover. Into Holly's rowdy parties troop the well-heeled and just plain heels. Among them: a rich, effeminate, gossip-column playboy; a roller-skating...