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...gives the money? Nixon's contributors include the Reader's Digest's DeWitt Wallace, Chicago Insurance Executive W. Clement Stone, Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick, and 100,000 donors who sent in contributions by mail. Humphrey's finances are run by Stockbroker John L. Loeb, Sidney J. Weinberg and ex-Commerce Secretary John Connor. To raise his funds, McCarthy has Howard Stein of the Dreyfus Fund, his kinderklatsch and a pride of beautiful people. Kennedy's finances come mostly from the family coffers...
Born. To Princess Margrethe, 28, heiress to the Danish throne, and Prince Henrik, 33, the French-born former Count Henri de Monpezat: their first child, a son; in Copenhagen...
...Show. Ascoli and his wife Marion Rosenwald, a Sears, Roebuck heiress, wearied of making up deficits. Very much the editorial autocrat, Ascoli had trouble grooming a successor. He hired a succession of distinguished editors: Harlan Cleveland, Theodore H. White, Theodore Draper, Irving Kristol. But none of them stayed very long. Through it all, the Reporter remained steady, sober, unsensational...
...Tune, Durrell's first novel since the Quartet ended with Clea in 1960, a neurotic, solid-gold heiress with the heart of a prostitute streaks naked into her empty ballroom and shatters its mirrored walls with a repeating shotgun. This preposterous act suggests the syndrome of identity crisis and symbolic suicide encountered only too frequently in contemporary fiction. Mirrors and prisms are novelists' standard metaphors, and Durrell has always used them well. He does so again in this devilishly clever metaphysical mystery tale. But new times demand new metaphors; except for that brief, noisy episode in the ballroom...
...blame their audiences' tastes rather than their own for what gets on the air, Dozier produced not only Batman but also two other series that contributed to TV's debasement during that period-Green Hornet and The Tammy Grimes Show. Tammy, an implausible sitchcom about a mindless heiress, lasted only four weeks and was, as Dozier himself admitted to his class, "the most conspicuous failure ever on television." Now that he is back in movies, Dozier feels free to lecture his longtime TV colleagues. "There hasn't been a meaningful show since The Defenders," he says...