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...midst of the Olympics, Helen Hill's television set suddenly went dark. She walked out of her house, which is 300 ft. from the river. Everything looked all right, she recalls, "but the wind told me what was coming...
...magazine progresses through athletes, intellectuals, "tastemaker," and at last to "Footlinghts," women of stage, screen and song. These are women who knew how to play up to the camera, and their portraits are full of a charming vanity. An aging Helen Hayes, bedecked in gold satin, diamond jewelry and long white gloves, sits atop a throne set smack in the middle of Broadway. Mae West--well, Mae West is Mae West, and here she is shown staring, almost licking her lips, at some anonymous specimen of beefcake. Barbra Streisand once again arrogantly displays the-nose-I-wouldn't-get-fixed...
...Remarkable Women" wraps up with some uninspiring shots of feminists and the lavish deification of "five great spirits:" Helen Keller, Clara Barton, Jane Addams, Eleanor Roosevelt and Marian Anderson. Back to the safe and approved, back to the biographies that line the shelves of small-town elementary schools. One hundred and fifteen pages, and Eleanor Roosevelt is still the queen of them all. Oh well...
...urge to perform runs in the Travolta family. John's mother, Helen Burke, an actress in Englewood, N.J., urged all her six children to take part in local theater. As the baby of the family, John had many acts to follow. At age seven, he flew around the country with his sister Ellen in a road show of Gypsy and at twelve acted in his first amateur production. Recalls Travolta: "That world of airplanes and theaters seemed my only route to freedom." At 16, he quit school and began working in dinner theaters and summer stock. Looking back...
Venn is the course's real magic. From the big publishing names she corrals--this year John Updike '54 and Helen Mayer, president of Dell publishing, will attend the program, to name a few--to her personal interest in getting students placed in fields of their choice, Venn insures that students won't regret the $750 tuition...