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Beneath statues of the Duke of Wellington, William Pitt the Younger and of himself, 82-year-old Sir Winston Churchill, wearing white tie and tails, the blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest, looked and sounded the proud and unyielding Englishman as he spoke out last week in London's 500-year-old Guildhall. His audience was 550 American and British lawyers and their wives, his theme was that "justice knows no frontiers," and his warning was that "justice is not being achieved" in the U.N. Assembly...
Deliberate Satire? Last week as Popo, 38, celebrated her first birthday as Abby Van Buren, she was the fastest rising lonelyheart columnist in the U.S. So quickly has her Dear Abby column caught on that it now appears in some 80 U.S. newspapers, from New York's garter-snapping Daily Mirror (circ. 842,023) to the sobersided Portland Oregonian (181,910), only a dozen fewer syndicate clients than carry sister Ann Landers, whose real name is Mrs. Jules ("Eppie") Lederer. This makes Abby the fourth-ranking U.S. lovelornist, after Dorothy Dix, Mary Haworth and Ann Landers...
...Says Todd: "I burned up four girls before I got it." It was a hit. After that there were other hits, other flops, but almost all had either sex or spectacle or both. He did The Hot Mikado ("The only show I ever produced that I liked"), Star and Garter, his first Broadway smash hit, Cole Porter's Mexican Hayride, Catherine Was Great with Mae West, the G.I. Hamlet with Maurice Evans, and an involuntary bit in court, where he was declared bankrupt. Continuing to live lavishly, Todd said, "I was a million in the hole. What...
...Slouch. At 17 Bertie was dubbed Knight of the Garter, and established in his own "household." His equerries were instructed never to permit "lounging ways, such [as] lolling in armchairs" or "slouching ... with hands in the pocket." All "satirical or bantering expressions" were taboo, and "a practical joke was never to be permitted." Bertie's leisure was to be spent "looking over drawings or engravings." On reading this memorandum, the Knight of the Garter burst into tears...
...story line but kills its spirit by relentless pursuit of the obvious gag, the single entendre, the rhyme-at-any-cost; e.g., "The air is full of your infidelities," sings Juno. "No? The hell it is," rhymes Jupiter in one of the better couplets. And so it goes, with garter-Sparta, Hades-ladies, loony-Juny (for Juno), until the elegantly frothy music is almost lost between the heavy text and the embarrassed sighs of the audience. Most remarkable fact of all: the man who managed thus to combine the theatrical naivete of a junior-highschool pageant with the vulgarity...