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...Collins", the best story in The Cape Cod Lighter, carries this message of brotherhood. Through his friendship with the eminently successful Whit Hofman, Pat Collins builds up a good business. But there is a hitch: Pat's wife loves Whit and seduces him. When their affair ends, Mrs. Collins confesses to her husband, and his world collapses. Not sin, but Pat's loss of his friend brings failure. He loses all faith in himself. As his world crumbles, Pat spends his evenings at a speakeasy where he befriends a lonely elderly millionaire who has spent 35 years writing a life...
...schlemiel (the Yiddish word for chronic bumbler), is the novel's antihero. Shouts of triumph or yelps of protest are not for schlemiels; Benny's conversation is limited to "What?" and "Wha." The alligators come into it when he arrives in New York after a Navy hitch-the liberty scenes in Norfolk are done with loving verity-and needs a job. So he gets one shooting alligators for the city. This keeps him in beer, and more he does not need. He sleeps in the bathtub of a West Side apartment belonging to the Whole Sick Crew...
...Actress Lupino became Director Lupino in motion pictures more than a dozen years ago (among her credits are RKO's Hard, Fast and Beautiful and The Hitch-Hiker). She got into television in 1956 when Producer Joseph Gotten asked her to direct The Trial of Mary Surratt for NBC's On Trial series. Since then she has directed more than 50 television shows-everything from Have Gun, Will Travel to Alfred Hitchcock Presents, where she developed such a cool hand with terror that she is now known in the trade as "the female Hitch...
Goodman's trip was sponsored by the State Department as part of a cultural exchange and went off almost without a hitch. The only incident took place in Tiflis, where a crowd of nationalistic Georgians booed singer Joya Sherill when she sang a song in Russian...
...Korean Eighth Army Commander General Walton Walker, killed in Korea, and Colonel Henry Arnold Jr., 45. whose father, the late General "Hap" Arnold, commanded U.S. air forces in World War II. Walker, now at U.N. headquarters in Korea, goes to the National War College in Washington, a hitch that is often a prelude to a general's star; Arnold, presently on duty at the Presidio in San Francisco, and Eisenhower, who has been on leave for nearly two years helping his father prepare his presidential papers, may be groomed for higher rank at the Army War College at Carlisle...