Word: jeanes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES, by Jean Kerr, Doubleday, 192 pp., $3.50. Illustrated...
...Jean Genet, author of "The Maids," wrote "Deathwatch," which was presented in Cambridge last spring. Genet is famous for his habitation of French prisons...
...various meager, but undoubtedly lucrative attempts to be significant, humorous, or informative. One author describes a fictional seduction in the styles of J. D. Salinger and Sally Bingham, combined, and the results are highly predictable. There are three more or less newsy bits about jazz, Bennett College, and Jean Sheperd, a disc jockey, whose incisive wit suffers from the commercialization which Ivy gives it. A short article on Cambridge University probes an untrained needle into a host of generalization, and comes up with an interesting, but more or less meaningless analysis...
...Oilman Jean Paul Getty, 64, not shirking his new fame as the wealthiest (at least $700 million) U.S. citizen, reviewed some recently accrued slings and arrows from his outrageous fortune as publicized by FORTUNE. At a private audience in London's Ritz Hotel, Getty told the New York Herald Tribune's Correspondent Art Buchwald: "The news about being the richest man in America came to me as a surprise. My bankers kept telling me for the last ten years that it was so, but I was hoping I wouldn't be found out. [Now] it looks like...
Little Kelly Jean McCormick, the adopted daughter of Tacoma (Wash.) Psychologists Archie and Alma McCormick, was only 3½ when she came sobbing to her mother with an unusual complaint. Her closest friends, all aged five to seven, were learning to read and write, and bright (IQ 147) Kelly Jean wanted to go to school. "I'm so ignorant," cried she. "I can't stand it." The McCormicks decided that they would indeed send Kelly Jean to school-but not to any ordinary one. Their adopted son Jimmy, who also had an IQ of 147, had been...