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This impressive new novel begins as a Midwestern idyl set on a leafy, residential street in Rainbow Center, Ohio. A widow er of 78. Realtor Boyd Mason comes home to the wide-lawned Victorian house he shares with his sister Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...
...only encouragement that day came from John Mason Brown, who thought the idea possible and worth pursuing. It must be kept in mind that our problem was a University theater, not Broadway, or "off Broadway...
...their neighbors will be in and out of a jazz palace called Rockland and a movie set where The Monster from the Tar Pits is being made with Gary Granite and Rock Pile. They even get a mysterious visit from Perry Gunnite, private eye-a petrified, would-be mason who covers up his insecurities by asking toughly for "rocks on the rocks...
Director Kubrick spotted Sue in a bit part on the Loretta Young Show, had her read for the part with James Mason, who will play Humbert Humbert, decided: "She is a natural actor. Also she has a beautiful figure along ballet lines." Lolita and Sue closely resemble each other. Lolita, at 15, toward the end of the book, stands 5 ft. tall, weighs 90 Ibs.; Sue, at 14, stands 5 ft. 2 in. and weighs 102 Ibs. Sue's picture used to appear in the J. C. Penney mail-order catalogue, for which she modeled junior dresses and bathing...
...Birny Mason Jr., 51, was named president of Union Carbide, the nation's second-largest chemical firm (1959 sales: $1.5 billion). He takes over from Howard S. Bunn, 60, who moves into the newly created post of vice chairman and is in line to succeed Morse G. Dial, 64, as board chairman and chief executive offi cer. Cornell-educated ('31) Birny Mason started out in research and production, moved into administration five years...