Word: mets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the tornado struck across town from his home, NBC Cameraman Maurice ("Moe") Levy, 34, grabbed his 16-mm. hand camera, hopped into his car and headed straight for the distant black column. He met it within the city's Negro district, stopped his car every few feet (leaving the motor running) to get pictures, never let it get more than 200 yds. away. Once he returned to his car to find it jammed with terrified survivors. Their terror grew when they realized, after refusing to get out, that Levy was trying to stay with the twister...
...with his sick wife. But neither Lasky nor anyone else had ever heard of Rich-except Frank King, producer of the award-winning story of a boy whose pet bull is spared in the bull ring because of its gallant fight. King says he knows Rich all right, met him in Europe in 1952 and bought a "five-or six-page treatment" of the story. Where is Rich now? "In Europe," retorts King. "I'm looking for him now. He's around 34, and he wears a goatee...
Pippin travels incognito (on a motor scooter) among his subjects and decides that what France most needs is an F.D.R.-style New Deal, a kind of People's Monarchy. To a stunned constitutional convention met to draw up a Code Pippin, he lays down what he wants to be the law. beginning with the maddeningly un-French notion of everyone paying his taxes. Before the reader can say "Ca ira," the mob is in the streets clamoring for the Fifth Republic, and what happens to King Pippin after that is best left for Author Steinbeck to tell...
Traded Tiara. Diana's mother was a legendary beauty, Blanche Oelrichs Thomas, also known as Michael Strange in her spare-time incarnations as poet and author. It was in Carder's, where she was trading her diamond tiara for a rope of matched pearls, that she met Actor John Barrymore-"the most beautiful man that ever lived," said she, "like a young archangel." But their unangelic love affair was like "a tennis match in Hell." More than three years later, Blanche Thomas, defying the warning cries of her friends and the exigencies of the Social Register, divorced...
Hellion in Paradise. Zoologist Gerald Durrell was ten years old in 1934 when his family settled on the Ionian resort island of Corfu for what proved to be a five-year stay. Fending off a swarm of taxi drivers, the Durrells met their own personal "Zorba the Greek" when a swarthy islander named Spiro shouted to the beleaguered family, "Hoy! Whys donts you have someones who can talks your own language?" Neither Spiro nor the local hotel guide could quite grasp certain Anglo-Saxon eccentricities ("But Madame, what for you want a bathroom? Have...