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...either beneath or beyond her. On a line like "Extraordinary how potent cheap music is," she puts equal stress on "potent" and "cheap" so that the fun is missing and the meaning is blurred. What she has doffed in avoirdupois she has put on in ancien Louis B. Mayer régime costumery, particularly one black-and-white Theoni V. Aldredge outfit that makes her look like a Hollywood penguin...
...PRIVATE VIEW by Irene Mayer Selznick Knopf; 384 pages...
Early in this star-strewn memoir, Irene Mayer Selznick recalls one of the many admonitions that she heard from her father, the second M of MGM, Louis B. Mayer: "You can't run a house if you don't know how to cook. Your cook will have no respect for you." Years later, separated from David O. Selznick and temporarily cookless in a Manhattan apartment, L.B.'s daughter comes home to a ghastly vision of uncooked poultry in the refrigerator and the realization that "I had never touched a raw chicken...
Presently ranked 25th on the professional circuit, after less than two full years. Mayotte has scored wins over such top-ranked players as Jimmy Conners, Gene Mayer, and Vitas Gerulaitis...
...think you have educated more people on this campuses, in this country, than Jean Mayer has educated in his entire life," he said...