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...Howard Hughes caper has blasted Nina van Pallandt off to stardom. The Danish singer and actress has done her fetching thing on the Dick Cavett and David Frost shows. She has been approached by four major record companies and two film companies. Nightclub offers have been piling in from Canada, the Bahamas, Florida, Mexico, San Francisco and Las Vegas (including one from a Hughes-owned hotel). "She's had more exposure in one week than Tom Jones has had in his whole career," bubbles Nina's manager, John Marshall. "Why, she got 5,000 letters and telegrams last...
...Sherwoods have not one but two TV sets, and soon the face of Nina van Pallandt, Irving's elegant traveling companion in Mexico, blossoms on both screens. Edith leans forward to watch with aggressive intentness. "She's going to be on David Frost and David Susskind," someone says. Marmon: "Will she sing or talk?" Sher wood: "She'll sing. She can't talk. She's too stupid...
Barrow in winter is mainly a scattered group of frame houses covered by layers of frost. Much of the time "20-20" weather prevails-20°-below-zero temperature and a bone-rattling 20-knot wind-making the chill factor 70° below zero. During winter in Barrow one does not walk more than 1,000 ft. before taking cover. To go farther would invite painful frostbite...
Shakespeare and Frost. It is not the kind of atmosphere to which Plimpton was born. He comes from the Massachusetts community of Plimptonville, named for his family, went to the Harvard Medical School and, shortly after World War II service as an Army doctor, joined the faculty of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. He has remained in academic life ever since. "Medicine and education are the same thing," he says. "A good physician is a good teacher...
...thinking, a medical academician is also versatile. Plimpton, 53, can lace a speech with quotations from Shakespeare, Robert Frost, James Baldwin and other famous non-doctors. Just after he took over Downstate, he participated in a five-day canoe trip in the waterways around New York City, battling the fringe winds and rain of tropical storm Doria and enjoying himself thoroughly. "Even if there were no human bodies broken loose from their concrete sinking blocks in the Gowanus Canal," he says with feigned disappointment. "Canoeing around Brooklyn opens up many new boundaries for head and heart. I recommend...