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...first printed joke," he recalls, "was in a gossip column. It read: 'Woody Allen says he ate at a restaurant that had O.P.S. prices-over people's salaries.' " Dreadful by any standards, and thus ideal for the likes of Winchell, Ed Sullivan and Earl Wilson, whose columns ate up more material than the gypsy moth caterpillar. Allen placed a dozen lines at a time. Their frequency, if not their quality, caught the notice of a pressagent named Dave Alber, who signed up Woody, then 17, to write japes for other people's credit. "Every day after...
...evaded him. As the decade dissolved into a blur of smoke-filled soirees in overheated rooms, everpresent drinks and effervescent Follies girls, Wilson awoke one morning in 1929 to damn New York's literary life as "a babel of tongues, a round of disorderly parties, an exchange of malicious gossip and a blather of half-baked aspirations...
This is still a country with a heavy, dreary bureaucracy and too many police, both open and secret. Its people, however, are emerging into a new openness. There is humor and gossip in the streets ("What Central Committee member's son is having an affair with a noted poetess?"). There is a sense of the possible and a desire for accomplishment, for matching the West. "There has been progress here in the past two years," says a Western diplomat, "but there is a long way to go." Coming back to Moscow, one senses the long-stalled process of progress...
Funeral Suit. He then goes on to prove it. An old friend calls with a grotesque request. He has read in a gossip column that Baldwin never again will wear the suit he wore at Martin Luther King's funeral. The friend, a postal clerk, wants to know if he could have the suit. Baldwin takes it to him and stays for dinner. A few drinks, an attempt by the friend to defend U.S. Indochina policy, and Baldwin explodes in violent profanity before the man and his family. There is also Baldwin torn between directing the legal defense...
...Common gossip says that youngsters are engaging in sexual intercourse earlier these days than they used to, but there has been precious little statistical evidence to back it up. Now Johns Hopkins Demographers Melvin Zelnik and John Kantner have come up with some firm data. After studying the sexual habits of unmarried teen-age girls, they announced last week that virginity is indeed outmoded. If the study sample is representative, almost half of all single American girls become non-virgins before they...