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...reckless private conduct over the years kept him in political hot water. His first two marriages-to Showgirl Isabel Washington and Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott-reflected Powell's affinity for glamour. His conquests were many. Some, like Yvette and his former-beauty-queen secretary, Corinne Huff, were even put on his staff payroll and paid $20,000 a year. In 1963 Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, won a $46,500 defamation judgment against Powell, who on TV called her a "bag woman" for gambling payoffs. For nearly five years he managed to avoid payment, partly by staying...
...funniest sketches, a parfait of incongruities, is Columbus' discovery of America. Trying to convince Queen Isabella-Queen Isabel Johnson, that is-that she should cough up for the trip west, Columbus tells her that without America, there would be no Ray Charles. That sends her into a swivet. "Ray Charles?" she screeches. "You gonna find Ray Charles? He in America?" "Damn right," says Chris. After writing him out a traveler's check so that he can buy the Pinta, the Niña and the Santa Maria at the Army & Navy Store, a zonked-out Isabel announces...
...ISABEL J. FORD Jefferson, Mass...
Only a small number of our readers' letters can be printed, and each week Reporter-Researcher Nancy Chase culls the mail for a representative and interesting sample. But all correspondence is answered. Miss Cisneros' staffers make a rough division by subject matter. Isabel Kouri, for instance, specializes in national affairs; Barbara Storfer in foreign news, science and environment...
...whose work (Diary of a Country Priest; Mouchette) has the bite and permanence of a woodcut? It seems inconceivable that Bresson could have confected this pastel romance. Everything in it has been said before in cheap yellowbacked French novels. A boy, Jacques (Guillaume des Forets), spies a girl, Marthe (Isabel Weingarten), on the bank of the Seine. Marthe is in tears; her lover has abandoned her. She consoles herself with Jacques. Hélas, the affair is only a dream; in the end it is shattered by the little ironies of circumstance. During their chaste interlude, Jacques and Marthe bathetically...