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Cocktail Houri. Bobbing and weaving about the premises are a passel of New York glitterati. There is a highbrow editor of a popular magazine who is keen on starting a new literary journal and wants Tom to round up a staff of "topnotchers" and decorated veterans from the little magazine wars ("You did publish Holloway's first stuff in Spectra, didn't you?"). There is Tom's cousin George, a would-be painter turned psychoanalyst, and George's wife, whose mind is an ambush out of which Freud continually jumps ("Can't the Cross...
...Soprano Lily Pens, 51, the Met staged a special gala to hail her, programmed a hit parade of Ponsongs from such favorite operas of Lily's as Rigoletto and Lucia di Lammermoor. From high-domed Rudolph Bing, the Met's general manager, Lily got congratulations and a passel of sterling silver mementos. Almost as trim as she was when she first defied the stereotyped bovine heft of oldtime grand divas, tiny (5 ft. ½ in., 109 Ibs.) French-born Singer Pons graciously took her curtain calls, then used her special brand of English to thank Met-goers...
...dismayed its viewers with Reginald Rose's Three Empty Rooms which dealt with a pair of miserably shy newlyweds, but wound up strongly affirming the solidarity of the human race. The stratosphere of Pollyannic joy was reached by Request Performance, which offered The Mumbys, a fable about a passel of vagabonds who magically transform an avaricious realtor and his purse-proud clients simply by camping out on the best lot in the swank subdivision. Robert Montgomery spread cheer with Charlton Heston as a plucky cowboy who triumphs over both the cops and robbers while winning the love of spirited...
...from the proletarians he claims to love, Italy's vacationing Communist Boss Palmlro Togliatti, apparently recovered from his spring sunstroke (TIME, May 30), disported himself gaily at his favorite fun-and-games resort in the Italian Alps. With him were a passel of relatives and Red-riding hoods, as well as his aging doxy-soxer girl friend Leonilde Iotti. The entourage's most notable hood was Togliatti's shadowlike Bodyguard Armando ("Armandino") Rosati. Italy's anti-Communist press chortled mightily at the idea of taking thuggish Armandino along on a peaceful holiday. Sample snide caption...
Italy's Cinemactress Gina (Bread, Love and Dreams) Lollobrigida was embroiled as usual in a passel of law suits.* Focal point of the contests was International News Service and its Rome Bureau Chief Mike Chinigo. After Chinigo distributed I.N.S. photos of Gina cavorting in cancan dresses for a new movie, Italian magazine readers delightedly noted that the flash bulbs used in making the pictures had penetrated her lingerie. Litigious Gina flew into a mercurial tizzy and vainly tried to get the negatives back; her irate husband, Mirko Skofic, dropped into Chinigo's office for a heated, futile chat...