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...California as an engine-room wiper on a tanker. He went to work for an uncle's law firm in Los Angeles, studying at night, and in 1927 passed the bar exam. Cooper built a thriving law firm. He defended Dr. Bernard Finch who, with his mistress Carole Tregoff, killed Finch's wife. Two juries were deadlocked and three trials held before Finch and Tregoff were convicted. They were saved from the gas chamber, and connoisseurs of courtroom melodrama still recall the lawyer's re-enactment of Finch's supposed struggle to get the gun from...
...other outlets for their energies. A few eccentrics begin to make their presence known. One woman writes a note to the cruise director: "There is a group of men and women aboard ship," she begins, "who are using fictitious names-one is a chief of police, here with his mistress or possibly unknown wife not united in marriage by his church . . . These men I accuse of operating a white slave ring. I want them taken to task. I am my own boss." A wild-eyed Denver merchant corners Milgrim in a hallway and through clenched teeth mutters...
Women will be heard from in other ways. Doris Lessing, forsaking African memories and revelations of the inner world of the feminine intellect in London, plunges into fictional futurism with a book called 7999. Eudora Welty, the soft-voiced but enduring prose mistress of Mississippi, is bringing out her first novel in 15 years. Jean Stafford (Boston Adventure, The Mountain Lion), who has also siphoned off much energy into intricate short stories, has finished her first novel in 17 years. Titled A Parliament of Women, it is set in the author's native Colorado, and one of the main...
...book's owner, Maurice Conchis (Anthony Quinn) befriends Urfe and brings him into his vortical universe. Conchis possesses many strange items: a schizoid mistress, Lily (Candice Bergen), limitless wealth, a haunted villa full of perceptible ghosts and fauns and figures. He also proudly exhibits his own grave, whose tombstone reads, "Death...
...some of it work: "Oh God, I do love being King!" But John, the son he is supposed to love, love enough to risk kingdoms and wars, is portrayed as a slobbering cretin; their relationship, central in the film's setting of alliance and ambition, is implausible. Henry's mistress, his "true love," is played by high-bosomed but wooden Jane Merrow--another problem for O'Toole...