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...WEEKENDERS by Max Gunther. 237 pages. Lippincott...
Reason Why. Weekenders, it turns out, are people who work five days a week, with two days off for getting into sociologically fascinating trouble. That is, weekenders are almost everyone not in jail. Most weekenders, Author Gunther reports, embrace the Fun Mystique. The weekender's "selfesteem depends on his success in having, or at least demonstrating, fun. The weekender likes to be thought of as an extrovert who lives in a loud fast whirl of activities. Anything less is felt to be almost if not quite pathological . . . Dr. James A. Wylie of Boston University has studied family recreation...
...televised a show in which Eatherly was made out to be a football star. A Hollywood script was written in which Eatherly repents of Hiroshima at his dying mother's bedside. (Robert Ryan or Audie Murphy was considered for the part of Eatherly.) A prominent German pacifist, Gunther Anders, corresponded with Eatherly, then had the letters published in European newspapers. Communists chimed in with their own fulsome praise of this "prisoner" of the capitalists...
...John Gunther, 61. ubiquitous author of Inside books, with phlebitis, at Harkness Pavilion, Manhattan; Mamie Eisenhower, 66, after removal of a benign tumor (lipoma) from her neck, in Walter Reed General Hospital. Washington, D.C.; Baritone Nelson Eddy, 61, hospitalized by pulmonary congestion with viral infection, in Framingham, Mass...
Among entertainers and the arts: Bob Hope, Danny Kaye, Rex Harrison, Helen Hayes, Ginger Rogers, Jack Paar, Leontyne Price, Bert Lahr, John Gunther, Edward Hopper, Minoru Yamasaki...