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...lion has lost much tooth and growl. The gossip content is redolent with secret mergers, splituations and apartaches, sexcess stories about hat-chicks and rot-and-roll singers, nawdy titles (what a fourcabulary! ), pufflicity seekers. Subdued is the shrill attack and jugular slash. There are more handsome compliments ("Hedda Hopper's attractive hairdo and apparel" ), more sentimental excursions into history ("[George Washington] was the father of our country. Even more-he was a brother to every American"), and more nostalgic poetry ("How long ago and far away you seem . . . As fragile as a whisper in the dark...
Pinball prose, grookish goofiness and all, Kerouac's book is a pleasant boyhood novel. Doctor Sax, which was written in 1952, comes from the apparently bottomless hopper that the author had filled before his bestselling On the Road was published. Perhaps because it contains no such adult concerns as marijuana, Zen Buddhism or women to dull his exuberance, it is Kerouac's best book...
Other pieces in the magazine are by Elinor Hughes, who is Boston's own Hedda Hopper, Elliot Norton of Hearst's Daily Record, William Van-Lennep, Joel Henning, and the editors. The latter's attack on CRIMSON drama criticism fails to slay a dragon that is probably much easier prey than The Advocate, unaccountably, estimates. Apart from its misrepresentation and misquotation, the essay is inoffensive to the Plympton Street conscience. It is more offensive to the community conscience, however, for it warns people not to believe everything they read in the papers. Not even newspapermen ask readers to do that...
...Masons descended on Hollywood in 1947, and Pamela found it such a "naively pure" town ("Peyton Place was squeamish by comparison") that she has felt compelled to educate it ever since. She has feuded with Columnist Hedda Hopper ("a dreadful person"), constantly popped off with suggestions such as harems for Hollywood husbands in order to prevent "messes like Eddie Fisher and Liz Taylor...
...Hopper also insisted that any agreement to prohibit nuclear-armed missiles should be limited to areas in Central Europe, explaining that "the West's ability to protect Germany and Berlin against Russian land forces would be destroyed by a prohibition of nuclear weapons in all of Western Europe...