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...HARLOW by Irving Shulman. 408 pages. Bernard Geis...
...Jean Harlow, first sex goddess of the talkies, had a life that epitomized Thomas Hobbes's phrase for the life of the "natural" man: poor, nasty, brutish and short. Her mother was domineering and obsessed with sex; her stepfather was a sponging promoter of fake gold mines. Jean's second husband, Producer Paul Bern, shot himself two months after the wedding. She could not act, but her platinum hair, husky voice, and refusal to wear a brassiere were enough to gross millions at the box office for Howard Hughes and Louis B. Mayer. She died...
...scarlet detail of Harlow's careening career, including much that was never hinted at in the gossip columns and some that is clearly imaginary, is revealed for the prurient-minded in this "intimate biography" by Irving Shulman (The Amboy Dukes). Shulman includes facts that Harlow's doctors evidently did not have-some not even her hairdresser could know for sure. He asserts that Harlow had bouts of nymphomania. He says that Paul Bern was impotent and a sadist whose beatings caused Harlow kidney injuries -which ultimately killed her because Jean's mother, a Christian Scientist, refused...
Hubley's hubris is evident both in the theme ("To find man's place in the universe") and in the treatment of his latest film. Adapted from a fairly erudite essay published in 1958 by Astronomer Harlow Shapley, Of Stars and Men is constructed like a philosophical treatise. In a prologue, Hubley celebrates man's capacity to know-and to know that he knows. In five principal chapters (Space, Time, Matter, Energy, Life), he expounds the physical universe as man has come to know it. And in an epilogue, he imagines where man stands in the novum...
Across the river, new head coach Dick Harlow encountered problems in his effort to rebuild the Harvard football machine. His team ended the season without a major victory and lost to Yale, 14-7. The Yardling eleven also succumbed to the Elis, 21-19, but their unexpectedly strong showing was viewed in the press box as a harbinger of better days...