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...DOORBELL RANG by Rex Stout. 186 pages. Viking...
...nation's highways, spreading inexorably across the U.S., are not only transforming American life but having deep effects on business. Last week in Manhattan, Federal Highway Administrator Rex M. Whitton announced that the vast program to build 41,000 miles of interstate highway has just about reached the halfway mark: 19,950 miles opened, another 6,100 miles under construction. There is nothing halfway, though, about the economic impact that the $46.8 billion program has already made on dozens of areas across...
...film, Agony limits itself to those tumultuous few years when the reluctant Michelangelo (Charlton Heston) was commissioned by the warrior Pope, Julius II (Rex Harrison), to forsake his beloved marble and paint the frescoes for the vaulted ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. "It was built by my uncle, Pope Sixtus. That is why it is called the Sistine," says Harrison, surveying a replica meticulously copied by movie artists, and at the same time snappily launching Hollywood's own capsule history of Renaissance art. Unfortunately, the dramatic clash of two iron-willed giants at odds over a ceiling seldom gets...
Clara Bow never found the limelight again. Her comeback efforts-two pictures, a Hollywood cabaret called, embarrassingly, It-all flickered feebly and failed. She retired to live with her husband, Cowboy Actor Rex Bell (later Lieutenant Governor of Nevada), on Bell's 350,000-acre ranch near Searchlight, Nev., and raised their two sons in complete obscurity. She took the fever of the '20s with her. Throughout the next three decades she was in and out of sanatoriums, continually racked with insomnia, often unable to speak coherently or recognize old friends. Every Christmas she wrote to Louella Parsons...
Audrey Hepburn hardly makes a move without Famous, her tiny Yorkshire. Liz Taylor takes her Pekingese and three Yorkshires almost everywhere. Tenor Franco Corelli travels with a poodle. Actor Rex Harrison brings a basset hound, and Gypsy Rose Lee has even smuggled her Chinese hairless puppy onto an airplane in her bra. With all that precedent, it was hardly a surprise that Mr. and Mrs. Everyman got the idea too. The result is that now Rover is roving all over the world nearly as much as his owner...