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...mixed up with romantic fantasies about "heroes! archangels! princes! sages! even fascinating rascals!"--fantasies analogous to those which, by his own testimony, occupied much of Shaw's attention during his virginal youth. The view which permeates Getting Married, however, is that sex is an undignified sort of anatomical itch, which nobody of any character would get married in order to scratch. This doctrine does not strengthen the claim of those who hold it on the interest--not to say the credulity--of an audience...
Exuberant Vulgarity. On his own, Billy wrote, produced and directed a savage social satire (Ace in the Hole) that flopped hard, then came back handily with Stalag 17, Sabrina, Seven Year Itch, Love in the Afternoon, Witness for the Prosecution. All these films were made from scripts that Billy himself had written-though always in collaboration. "Most of Billy's collaborators," says a friend, "are just $50,000 secretaries." They sit at a typewriter while Billy strides feverishly up and down, slashing the air with a swagger stick, frothing at the mouth with dialogue and situation...
...Seven Year Itch, etc., all "b~sed on adultery by intellectuals. Unlike French farce, it is essentially smug. You have to be able to live in Westport. You know all about Freud. You have to be able to af ford the slightly Bohemian reconverted barn in which the artist for The New Yorker, that safe citizen of our times, works...
Among the minor ills that bring discomforts to man, few are so persistent or so hard to treat as fungus infections-the cause of ringworm (including the stubborn ringworm of the nails), barber's itch, athlete's foot, and jockstrap itch. Last week 300 specialists in fungus infections, convened in Manhattan under auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences, agreed that 1959 had marked a turning point in the history of man and his itches: a new antibiotic, griseofulvin (extracted from a Penicillium species closely related to the source of penicillin), is the best remedy...
...holder of U.S. Patent No. 2,850,023, Idaho's one-term (1944-50) Democratic Senator Glen H. Taylor, was in Manhattan at the headquarters of the business based on his invention-a no-itch, nonskid toupee. As president of Taylor Topper, toupee-topped Taylor, a veteran campaign guitar strummer and vice-presidential candidate of the pink-tinged Progressive Party in 1948, features before-and-after pictures of his own pate in his advertising, is now trying to set up Taylor Topper franchises across the U.S. Last week he allowed: "I'm not doing a land-office business...