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...question of about the same importance now confronts the world of letters: Who wrote the novel that contains this gooey hooey? Jean Harlow wrote it, with the help of an M-G-M journeyman. Completed before Harlow's death, the manuscript has been hidden away for the past 32 years. Published last week in the midst of a harrowing Harlow revival, Today Is Tonight (Grove Press; $5) reads like the first crude script of a Harlow movie-happy but sappy, and crammed with such insights as: "Funny that a man should want you tanned all over." An earnest preface...
...circ. 337,556). Publisher Dorothy ("Dolly") Schiff, 62, who has been increasingly concerned over the paper's financial condition, installed a punch-tape IBM computer that can automatically prepare edited copy at the rate of better than 2,000 lines an hour-theoretically ten times faster than a journeyman Linotypist. After experimenting with it on a dry-run basis, Mrs. Schiff last week ordered the machine into operation. The union balked, and Bertram Powers, single-minded president of the International Typographical Union Local No. 6, laid down his demands. His men would refuse to operate the machine, insisted Powers...
Died. Lucian ("Sonny") Banks, 24, journeyman heavyweight boxer from Detroit, whose main claim to fame was his 1962 knockdown of Cassius Clay (Clay kayoed Banks four rounds later); of a blood clot in the brain, three days after he was knocked out in the ninth round by Leotis Martin; in Philadelphia. Banks was the 64th fighter to die of ring injuries in the last five years...
...soda to drink. He owns half a dozen cars, including a gold-trimmed Cadillac that has been spray-painted with 40 coats of crushed diamonds. But since that is a bit showy for everyday and is being used by RCA on promotion tours, a black Rolls-Royce does the journeyman work...
...level of realism, the Cheever biography is just another success story -of a man reaping the modest rewards of recognition after a lifetime of devoted apprenticeship, journeyman years, and final mastery of a difficult trade. His spiritual biography is something else again, seen clearly only in terms of his own severe moral vision. He sees man not in modern terms as any individual but as the center of a system of obligations. Evasion or betrayal of these obligations may be punishable by metamorphosis into some monstrous, less-than-human form. Life, he writes, is "a perilous moral journey." The freaks...