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Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Saloon Editor Earl Wilson defends his new "book," Pike's Peek or Bust. Critics: New York's ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker, Stripteaser Gypsy Rose...
Clare Boothe Luce took a breather in her fight for civilian control of atomic energy, gave her House colleagues a peek at the shape of things to come. Minnesota's Representative Walter H. Judd started it all by observing that radioactive elements might be used to transmute the human species. While they were about it, suggested Mrs. Luce, let's transmute all women into Lana Turners. As for the male prototype: "a very large head, one eye, an ear bent permanently to receive a telephone call, one hand with only a thumb and forefinger so it can sign...
Edouard Herriot, corresponding with the publishers of a book he is working on, gave them a peek at a septuagenarian's psyche. "Now that I have grown old," wrote France's 73-year-old ex-Premier, "I have the feeling, when walking through a cemetery, that I am apartment-hunting...
...week's end came hopeful news. The acknowledged Hattie Carnegie of sack fashions - Vice President Richard Peek of Kansas City's million-dollar Percy Kent Bag Co., which supplies the nation's millers with most of their printed sacks-announced that he had not yet lost a single order because of dark flour...
Always Coolidge tried to sneak away from his guard. "On awakening in the morning he would walk across the upstairs hallway to the Lincoln Room in his long nightgown and slippers. There he would peek out the window to see whether I was on the lawn. ... If he did not see me, he would have Brooks telephone downstairs to ask if I were in the building. . . . Sometimes he would tell the elevator operator to take him to the basement. Then he would try to sneak out the East or the West entrance, just to fool me. Everyone on the staff...