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Psychiatry & Wolves. Hoping to catch some of the popularity slosh from NBC's Eleventh Hour and Hazel, ABC has a new 50-minute hour on psychiatry called Breaking Point, and NBC has hired Imogene Coca to play an itinerant maid named Grindl, who drops dishes in a different job each week. Other shows are not so imitative...
...hiring women to wait on table. The girls were reluctant at first and flatly refused to wear frilly aprons because they are a symbol of service. Now the jobs are coveted not so much for the higher pay as for the chance to meet eligible men. In Athens a maid who was warned to be thorough in her cleaning dismantled a guest's electric razor so completely that it could not be put back together again...
...were frequent, and postwar revolutions in Europe were making everybody jittery. Many people were sure the Reds were planning a revolution in the U.S. any day. There was a spate of ugly bombings; a clumsy plot to assassinate many top American officials was uncovered; and one Senator's maid had her hands blown off when she opened a package containing a bomb...
Died. ZaSu Pitts, 63, Hollywood's flibbertigibbet comedienne, a Kansas girl who was a rising tragedienne until the talkies came along and no one could take her quavering, squeaky voice seriously, then adroitly turned to hilarious roles, from the whimpering Western maid in Ruggles of Red Gap to the befuddled switchboard operator of the forthcoming It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World; of cancer; in Hollywood...
...half in the florid letters of an artist to a countess of the court, Isak Dinesen's baroque tale chronicles an attempted seduction-but not of the usual sort. The artist, Herr Cazotte, has laid siege to Ehrengard (literally "guard of honor"), an innocent blonde Walkyrie serving as maid of honor to a princess in an idyllic summer court. No fleshly triumph teases him. That would be too easy. What he is after instead is a blush. And a special kind of blush at that. No rosiness such as some blunt, simple-minded fellow might force to her cheeks...