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...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. Teen-Agers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth racket about Manhattan as a pair of metro-gnomes in hilarious pursuit of Peter Sellers, a playboy pianist with a yen for footloose matrons...
...WORLD OF HENRY ORIENT. TeenAgers Tippy Walker and Merrie Spaeth racket about Manhattan as a pair of metro-gnomes in hilarious pursuit of Peter Sellers, a playboy pianist with a yen for footloose matrons...
...Wolf was one more victim of Alabama's "quickie" divorce racket, which the state legislature itself created in 1945. Until then, Alabama required one year's residence for plaintiffs seeking divorce from outside-the-state spouses. But under a brief amendment, the residence requirement was waived if "the court has jurisdiction of both parties." As Alabama lawyers saw it, this allowed even a single day's residence to serve for purposes of divorce so long as the plaintiff claimed "intent" to live in Alabama. All a lawyer needed in addition was the defendant's signed agreement...
...Chief of Naval Operations one day. "Hell," says one, "you could tell that when he was still at the academy." Assigned to the Pentagon in late 1960, Moorer sometimes exasperated Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and his computer-minded whiz kids (whom he was fond of calling "the numbers-racket people"), and sometimes confronted them with analogies like this: "Arnold Palmer played golf the other day. In terms of your weapons-analysis system, he used his 5 iron three times, his driver 18 times and his putter 38 times. Well, according to your system, if he wants to play even...
After comparing orthodontic appliances, the two racket around Manhattan improvising absurd fantasies derived from Little Women and Fu Manchu. In Central Park they pretend to be "two beautiful white nurses" besieged by Chinese bandits. Merrie pokes a wad of bubble gum into Tippy's mouth. Poison. "When they try to ravish us, bite down," she orders. Then the nurses clamber up an escarpment and discover Sellers and Prentiss attempting a rendezvous on the rocks. From then on they bug Sellers, spoiling assignations and complicating the plot. They even scavenge his discarded cigarette butts and wrap them tenderly...