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...obsessed by a woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing the creatures-married couples, tree surgeons, enterprising alley cats-in the little closed-in world...
...Peach Buds & Flu. In Banker Christie's Phoenix, spring had come three weeks early, bringing the fragrance of orange blossoms. The talk of the town was the upcoming Junior Chamber of Commerce rodeo, and the talk of the Junior C. of C. was the enterprise of Bright Young Man Lee Ackerman and his aide, Chuck Mueller, who are so convinced of the future growth of Phoenix that they are buying and selling nearby desert acreage that only a jack rabbit could call home...
Atlanta fretted about the dying winter's snowy last fling, which nipped peach buds and forsythia blooms brought forth early by a false spring. Wichita grumbled about its flurry of nonfatal but highly uncomfortable flu. Miami complained of nagging rain-but 23,026 racing fans braved it on Gulfstream Park's opening day to bet $1,863,447. Texas rejoiced in the recent soaking rains that brightened parched fields with blankets of green and stirred hopes that the seven-year drought might be ending at last...
...official role of chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, New Hampshire's Styles Bridges casually asked President Eisenhower if he would like to lunch with the committee some day on Capitol Hill. "Sure-today," said Ike briskly, leaving Styles Bridges to rummage up sirloin steaks, peach-and-cottage-cheese salad, chocolate and vanilla ice cream, Jell-O and coffee for 40 guests, purring that a Republican President had not lunched informally with Republican Senators on the Hill like this for more than 25 years. Obviously the President had something important on his mind, thought the Senators...
Uncle Willie (by Julie Berns and Irving Elman) is Comedian Menasha Skulnik, long a favorite with Yiddish-speaking audiences and lately also on Broadway (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach). In Uncle Willie his extraordinary appeal does what it can to offset a miserably sleazy play. Cast as a turn-of-the-century do-gooder who deals in everything from pins to cemetery lots, he marries off immigrant cousins, assumes family mortgages and is good to little children. But above all he gradually converts a feuding two-family house, half Irish and half Jewish, into a bower of sweetness...