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Lester Lanin, who has played for President Eisenhower's birthday balls and similar events, has set up shop in one corner of the quadrangular building, and his long-winded musicians stop but twice during the entire three-hour dance. My Fair Lady mingles with Pal Joey, white dinner jackets mix with black ones, red chemises mix with red jackets; but the lights blend all into violet. Some dance in the circle created by the shower curtain, while the jowly policeman at the door smiles benignly at the scene...
...mother, Actress Turner, in the midst of trying to discard her latest male doll. But in this case the doll was not too easy to throw away: he was hairily handsome Johnny Stompanato, 32, a bum-around-Hollywood whose main claim to fame was a record as a pal of six-bit Gangster Mickey Cohen. Johnny and Lana had traveled Europe together, spent two months in Mexico. But upon their return Lana began, as a Beverly Hills cop delicately put it last week, trying to "discourage his attendons." Johnny Stompanato got downright annoyed...
...laid a wreath on the Soviet war memorial. Also on hand, though unannounced in any list of the Soviet delegation, was Colonel General Ivan Serov, the Soviet secret police boss who was returning to the scene of his crime. It was he who had treacherously arrested General Pal Maleter, hero of the 1956 Budapest rising, as Maleter parleyed with Red army officers...
...week (Thursday; ; up and at 'em 7 a.m. for another round, bigger and better. You've gotta be on the ball every minute in this world, buddy. Gotta live hard if you're gonna get anywhere. Read a book? How long's it take? Sorry pal, I gotta...
...contract with his publisher Simon & Schuster, his royalties are above the 15% top writers receive, and certain unusual details are involved. The contract was negotiated and held by an intermediary group known as Ridge Press, in which Sloan Wilson is a minority stockholder. Head of Ridge Press is a pal of Wilson's, a onetime magazine (Argosy) executive named Jerry Mason, who acted as editor, designer and bargaining agent for the new book (Simon & Schuster handles printing, advertising and distribution). For Ridge Press, Mason kept full movie and TV rights, of which the publisher would ordinarily take 10%. Moreover...