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...parks, anywhere that people might pick them up and steal them." She is quite jealous of every word, and every representation of her words. She carefully goes over each picture for her books with her illustrator, Mary Shepard, who is the daughter of the man that illustrated Winnie the Pooh...
Alan King, one of the pooh-bahs of show biz, plays the psychiatrist with two alternating expressions. He pops his eyes like the late Benito Mussolini, and he breaks into a slow-burn grin like a pregnant volcano. This gives him wice the comic range of the play...
...irrelevant to the good newspaperman. He fights his battles on the editorial page, with ink on paper, one dimension only. His style is not a part of his fight. He lives in the way that best enables him to maintain contacts, to gather information, to report the news. He pooh-poohs questions like which side are you on. In the battleground of Mississippi, where those words are on everybody's lips, the good newspaperman alienates half his readers with every sentence...
...burly nephew. As police told it, Powers, who was Candace's longtime lover, jetted over from Houston the day before the murder, crushed his uncle's skull with a king-size Coke bottle and jetted home next morning. Said Candace on hearing the charge: "Oh, pooh!" Last month a Miami grand jury indicted Mel for murder-and Candace, too. Voluntarily rising from her Mayo bed, Candace wound up in jail with Mel, pending trial in November. "This is Russia," she stormed. "They would convict Jesus Christ." Last week Mel and Candace got an unusual legal break. In most...
...Hatred is too much for me," confesses the disturbed American woman who is the heroine of this novel, "I can't face it." She means hatred for her ex-husband, a middle-aged philosopher who is a venerable pooh-bear to everyone else in the world but a dragon to her. To escape his continuing attentions she runs away to Italy, takes up with a pushy, pragmatic American. Alas, she finds she is tied to both men. In the end, the ties are suddenly severed: the lover leaves her, her former husband dies, and she is left with nobody...