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...prostitutes 2,735 miles to Irkutsk and surrounding villages. The housewife was especially upset about a young lady named Tosca, whose fame was so great that it preceded her arrival in Siberia. "Won't this piece of goods find admirers even in a new place?" asked the matron. "She probably will. I know that the wives of a few Bodaibo miners, for example, asked the 'authorities to stop sending the likes of Tosca to Bodaibo. This desire to push their unfinished goods onto others is wrong...
...Frank Jr. quietly attended local public and private schools, still plans to continue drama studies at the University of Southern California. But once he cuts loose on the songs that Daddy taught him, history may well repeat itself. During an impromptu public appearance at Disneyland last summer, one youngish matron came up to the bandstand and purred: "That was almost like the Paramount Theater...
...plays Mama Hirsch, a Westchester matron of the affluent diaspora displaced from The Bronx. Mama Hirsch is not content to throw her weight around; she shot-puts her entire family. Her daughter (Jill Kraft) lands on a psychoanalyst's couch: Should she marry a button-down stuffed shirt or donate free love to a beardless beatnik? Mama's husband (Howard Da Silva) lands on a putting green, a golf widower torn between selling his house and business and retiring to Florida, or buying out his rival and increasing his headaches. Informed that she is too meddlesomely possessive, Mama...
Visitors who choose to rent instead of build or buy can get away for less ($3,000 for the season), but find themselves dissatisfied. Said one American matron last week, "I just rented a chalet for the season this time, but next year I'm going to take it all year. It's such trouble having to store my ski clothes." In addition to the fulltime chalet dwellers (most of whom maintain at least one other home base, ranging in location and social prestige from the Riviera to Florida), Gstaad harbors a large class of doting parents...
...offspring of a Jewish-Irish vaudeville team. Super-intellegent from birth, they started in rotation on a radio quiz kid show. Grown-ups now, they are spread far afield: Buddy teachers English at an upstate New York girl's college; Walker is a priest; Boo Boo a Westchester matron; Zooey a rising TV actor; and Franny a college student. The greatest of them all, however, was Seymour, who committed suicide on vacation in an earlier Salinger story, "A Perfect Day for Bananafish...