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...total of four wives and two divorces, confided that he could not "implement this task without the help of women." In the rosy Socialist future, he promised, every Indonesian girl of marriageable age will have a husband, a radio and a modern kitchen (thus making a piker of Herbert Hoover, who in 1928 campaigned under the Republican slogan that merely promised U.S. women "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"). Capitalism, Sukarno said disdainfully, is "a man's world"; only under Socialism do women have plenty of time for "companionship, motherhood and love." Under...
Died. Harry Piker, 75, New York-born entertainer who became a celebrity in the 19203 as the dancing partner of French Sex Symbols Mistinguett and Gaby Deslys, and who later switched to emceeing the live entertainment in Riviera casinos; of a heart attack; in Cannes, France...
...everything but her dark glasses in Manhattan, suggests early in Truman Capote's bestselling Breakfast at Tiffany's (TIME, Nov. 3) that a man who gives his date less than $50 for a powder-room tip is a cheapskate. Holly herself was made to look like a piker last week when one Bonnie Golightly. who insists that she is the real-life original of Holly, filed suits totaling $800,000 against Capote, Esquire (which first published the long story) and Random House. The grounds: 1) libel. 2) invasion of privacy...
...Society picked as committee heads; Kevin O'Connell '55 of Winthrop, Athletic Committee, Clark A McCartney '55 of Adams, University Committee, William Coakley '55 of Lowell, Freshman Orientation Committee, and Fred K. Piker '54 of Winthrop, Schools Committee...
...issue. Tacked on are two little news items, printed with appropriate comments. One of these shows a deplorable lack of taste, and it is surprising that the Lampoon decided to print it. The poems are Henry Ziegler's The Lower Depths and Osborne's Joseph Was a Piker. Neither is funny...