Word: minding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Twice divorced (most recently from Singer Marion Hutton), Humorist Douglas, 50, who opens this week as one-man funnyman in a nightclub act, has a ready answer to questions about who his next wife will be. "Princess Margaret, of course," cracks Douglas, but his previous choices are on his mind too. He has netted more than $10,000 in the two months since his book was published and moans: "I can see the ex-wives closing in now." Says Jack Paar: "I think it would be fair to say that Mr. Douglas does all his writing under the influence...
...strangest union meetings to be found anywhere. Ranged on one side of a bitter leadership battle was a fading movie actress supported by her floor leader and lieutenant, a goateed mind reader. On the opposite side was a former nightclub pitchman supported by fire-eaters, sword-swallowers and comics. As a flock of Washington reporters perched outside the Pall Mall Room of the Hotel Raleigh, the annual meeting of the American Guild of Variety Artists grew as raucous as anything that ever happened on a carny midway...
...going to be president," says Mrs. Ward, "it's important for people to know that you are." She hinted that she had definite changes in mind for the company, but discreetly added that she does not intend to "rock the boat-yet." She has also taken over the top post in sales, will later delegate sales supervision to a vice president, "but he must prove his worth." Says Mrs. Ward: "It's a man's world, and I'm not sure that isn't the way it should be. So what happens is that...
...that she lacks the classic French quality of mesure, or "nothing in excess." From the dutiful daughter she became the no-quarter feminist. From the total order of Catholicism, she moved to the universe of total absurdity embodied in atheist existentialism. Even travel, which ought to have broadened her mind, merely served to harden her. Thus, thinking Communism good, she went to Red China (The Long March) and found it a paradise; thinking the U.S. bad, she found America, Day by Day a demihell. The purity fetish instilled by Mama de Beauvoir has given Simone's intellectual life unquestionable...
...Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye is ironic, and too close to be anything but intentional. Miller's gift for mimicking the speech of a bitter, neurotic boy is as true as Salinger's. But Holden Caulfield had a caustically individual twist to his mind, and it was on an exploration of this mind that Salinger concentrated. Miller's book is focused not on Duke himself, but on the shockingly brutal existence that is natural to him. The book is too much the composite case history to be a really good novel...