Word: homeness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...then I urge you to go see your minister, your priest, your rabbi, or your psychiatrist: you are deathly sick." The speaker was Alexander King, sometime adman, artist, editor and dope addict, who has turned the kind of anecdote-flavored coffeehouse talk that has long been familiar in his home town (Vienna) into a highly successful TV act. His garrulous appearances on the Jack Paar show helped boost his current bestseller, Mine Enemy Grows Older, a book of amusing, scurrilous reminiscences. His often witty, sometimes vulgar, hour-long weekly talk show on Manhattan's WNTA-TV (says...
...proper gift for their 35th wedding anniversary, he had a good basis to go on-Mitzie, a delicate wisp of a woman (5 ft., 76 Ibs.) who likes to wear originals by Dior and Givenchy, still has a high interest in high fashion. Last week Sam came home with just the right present: Conde Nast Publications Inc., publishers of the haute couture Vogue (circ. 415,258), House & Garden (circ. 576,196), and their svelte siblings Glamour (circ. 668,062) and Bride's Magazine (circ. 169,902). Grins Newhouse: "I thought Mitzie would get a thrill...
...even clerks and secretaries can afford the camera safari, which provides them with a peaceful look at wildlife in the unfettered flesh and fascinating movie footage to amaze the folks back home. Nairobi's Overland Motor Co. offers a 15-day tour of game areas by car for a comparatively modest $700, including round-trip air fare from Europe. Overland, which expected about 50 tourists at most during the first three months of 1959, now expects the total to top 800 before the season is over. The animals in East Africa's national parks, secure in the protection...
...Left my home when...
Free-Style Debates. For all his foreign ways, 33-year-old Teacher Hamlett is accepted in the mountain town. He wears a black djellabah, and because he is a Negro is sometimes mistaken for a native. Said one Moroccan merchant: "He is completely at home here...