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...returns to his own world? Author Levin bats fifty-fifty. On the one hand, the ending of Rosemary's Baby, though inevitable, is flat; on the other hand, it is as unsettling as the first stirrings of a poison-ivy rash at the conclusion of a picnic...
...Oceanside. Situated on the broad Long Island plane, accessible by car from all directions, Nathan's of Oceanside is what Harvard Square would be if city planners took teen-agers to heart and let traffic control go hang. Conceive a commodious space, roofed with wood, full of metal picnic tables. The air is rotting vegetable incense, the food, all of it, has the consistency of a day-old french...
...first novel by Mary Ellin Barrett, daughter of Composer Irving Berlin, sometimes rises a little too high on its toes and ends up breathless. But the book is saved from the Venus flytrap of ladies' magazine fiction by its easy intimacy with the ambiance of those days of picnic baskets and tennis flannels. The author has a sophisticated sense of the tensions that show among even the most beautiful people - like the stringy neck muscles beneath an aging face that has been given too much expensive care...
...Kans., flew in the guests.* All day before the ball, fashionable East Side hairdressers fought off nervous breakdowns, and the 16 hosts and hostesses who had volunteered to give pre-ball dinners simmered on the verge of hysteria. Capote and Kay Graham had a quiet little "bird and bottle" picnic supper in his Plaza suite. As the hour for the party approached, Capote's chums became as anxious as he. Said Mrs. Leland Hayward: "We're so dearly fond of Truman, and we were afraid that with all this publicity, the party might flop...
...game that rivalled the Penn contest in dullness. Fans amused themselves watching the Battle of the Bands between Brown and Harvard instrumentalists. The Bruins played the Yale and Princeton fight songs, and the Harvards retaliated with "The Teddy Bears' Picnic." STATISTICS BROWN HARVARD First Downs 20 18 Rushing Yardage 137 209 Passing Yardage 128 139 Passes 10-22 11-18 Fumbles Lost 2 2 Punts 4-47 3-35 Yards Penalized...