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Rose makes about $32,000 a year. "I could be making more money in the valley," he says. "But what else could I want? I think I'm just a hick at heart." Says an ancient patient, with an approving smirk: "The Doc is busier than a long-tailed cat in a roomful of rocking chairs...
Their friendship would continue for 30 years and involve more than 3,300 letters 2,300 of them to Hick in Eleanor Roosevelt's scrawling hand. The letters, at Hickok's direction, ended up in the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library with the proviso that they would not be opened until ten years after her death, which occurred in 1968. Many of them are included in The Life of Lorena Hickok, a biography by Doris Faber to be published by William Morrow & Co. in February. As a whole, they suggest an intimate relationship never previously considered...
...Hick, darling. I want to put my arms around you. I ache to hold you close." The year was 1933. The writer: Eleanor Roosevelt. "Hick" was Lorena Hickok, a burly A.P. reporter assigned to cover Mrs. Roosevelt...
...Allen has a favorite actor, it seems to be Keaton. Talking about her always cheers him up: "She has no compunction about playing a lovable and gangly hick in Annie Hall and then very neurotic and disturbed women in Interiors and Manhattan. That's the mark of an actress and not a movie star. Keaton also has the eye of a genius, as you can see in her photos, collages, silk screens and wardrobe. She can dress in a thousand more creative ways than she did in Annie Hall. When I first met her, she'd combine unbelievable stuffat boots...
...Frank Capra's classic cinemorality play, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, an idealistic hick politician successfully filibusters the Senate into accepting his impassioned arguments. Last week another Mr. Smith - also a country boy, albeit a shrewd one from a far country - went to Washington seeking somewhat the same kind of improbable result. But to no avail. After four whirlwind days in the capital promoting his "internal settlement" approach to biracial government in Rhodesia, Prime Minister Ian Smith failed to impress even many of the 27 Senators who had invited him to Washington over State Department objection...