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...young for good reason. Hindu and Buddhist tradition decree that Nepal's living goddess Kumari (meaning virgin) may never shed blood in herself or another; obviously, she must be replaced by another young girl when she reaches puberty. Black-eyed, pony-tailed little Laksmi, daughter of a goldsmith, was chosen from a field of six final contestants by a committee of priests who had scrutinized the girls' horoscopes and their bodies, for the goddess must be free of blemishes, birthmarks, scars or scratches. The goddess must also be brave; the final test was to shut the children...
...BETTY GOLDSMITH Rochester...
...bookseller's hack is not a new figure in literature, as I am sure you are aware. And many notable men have played the role. Oliver Goldsmith wrote a book about birds, full of astounding nonsense, for a London bookseller, and Charles Dickens produced a lamentable Child's History of England. Both works were undertaken for the same reason -the gentlemen needed money, a chronic need among 90% of authors, then...
...male research team, Chapman invades "The Briars," an upper middle-class Los Angeles suburb, to do interviews for A Sex History of the American Married Female. Expectedly, all the watched sexpots in The Briars boil over, either during the interviewing sessions or in uncontrolled experiments. Among the cases: Sarah Goldsmith, a mother of two who is cheating on a tabby-cat husband with a tomcat theater director; Naomi Shields, an alcoholic nymphomaniac who accommodates an entire jazz combo; Teresa Harnish, the arty wife of an art dealer who decides to find out from a Cro-Magnon beach...
...Philip Goldsmith, 52, was named president of Bates Manufacturing Co., Maine's largest textile company (1959 sales: $38 million). He was the choice of Bates's chairman and chief stockholder, Mrs. Sylvia Martin, widow of Bates's last president, Lester Martin. Goldsmith is also president of Mojud Co., will keep both jobs. London born, he migrated to Brooklyn after World War I, started as a sample boy in a hosiery firm, by 30 owned his first mill. In 1940 he bought the Diamond hosiery firm (150 employees), sold it in 1954 (sales: $8,000,000; employees...