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Author Mailer's new novel is hauled from the literary graveyard of the '30s, when "social consciousness" was in vogue. Like other books of the school, it tries to pin the blame for human evil on the favorite villain of every park-bench anarchist, "the system...
...time, high time, for Mr. Ormsby to change more than his socks. Not that he ever would change; his marriage fitted him like a diaper. It suited Mother too; she didn't mind tending him like an infant, so long as she could jab him with the pin whenever she pleased. Of course, it had been pretty hard on their only son, growing up between a father he despised and a mother he feared-so hard that he had run away and enlisted in the Marines. Now he was dead, a hero, and today was the day when Mother...
...G.l.s who like jive and pin-up girls in about equal proportions, the Armed Forces Radio Service hit upon a neat solution: wrap up both and deliver them in a single package. The package is a pretty ex-movie starlet named Rebel Randall, the disc jockey of Jukebox, U.S.A., whose face and statistics (36 in. bust and hips, 24-in. waist) are every bit as appealing as her throaty voice...
...last week, brunette, green-eyed Rebel Randall (who was born Alaine Brandes 29 years ago in Chicago) was a top radio and pin-up attraction on such far-flung military networks as the Mosquito (Guadalcanal), the Far Eastern (Japan and Korea), the Jungle (New Guinea) and the Bedside (military hospitals). Her five-day-a-week show is beamed to more than two million members of the armed forces and some 80 million foreign listeners-in. She gets 1,000 letters a month from G.l.s, asking for pinups, making requests for favorite records and offering her everything from marriage to captured...
Olympic rules and weight classes will be used. Lee will wrestle at 125 1/2 pounds and will go to Iowa to practice for a month before leaving the U.s. Olympic rules many handicap him, since he is unfamiliar will wrestling for touch pins. Where every touch counts as a pin...