Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Seesaw. Uneven but amusing and touching two-character tale of a split-level, ghost-ridden love affair...
...This Be Me?" asked Cinemactress Sophia Loren in Hearst's Sunday-supplement American Weekly. Telling all in girlish, ghost-ridden prose, the sultry actress offered a first-person glimpse into how a poor, tomboyish beanpole from a little Italian town near Naples eventually blossomed into a bosomy international movie star. Life was hard in the slums, hardest of all when young Sophia learned that Mom and Dad had never married. "A shadow had fallen across my tiny world. Suddenly I was insecure." But a girl friend's advice helped: "I held my head high and my body erect...
Born. To Singing Actress Anne Jeffreys, 35, and Actor Robert Sterling, 41, the ghost husband and wife in TV's Topper series: their second child, second son (he has a daughter by a previous marriage to Actress Ann Sothern); in Burbank, Calif. Name: Robert Dana. Weight...
...Washington and Wall Street, the big worry is the galloping ghost of inflation, returning to haunt the U.S. economy even as it comes up out of recession. Said Chairman Raymond Saulnier of the President's Council of Economic Advisers last week: "Inflation is the problem now." But the U.S. could be thankful that inflation is not a far bigger problem-as it surely would be if the clamor for stronger antirecession measures had been heeded...
Indeed, that ghost and a somewhat inane collection of conversation and childhood incident called "Cousin Jack" are the only real faults of the current issue. Hill, Hickock, Claude McNeal (who edites the magazine along with Hickock) and a couple of the female poets seem to be looking at Eliot as a mentor or an enemy--but not looking beyond him. A bogus character named T.E. Stearns goes on for several pages of Eliot parody--which should have gone out of fashion several decades...