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...Cuisenaire rods helped budding arithmeticians learn the basics of addition and subtraction. Example: using sight and touch, a child could tell that a 3-cm. green rod plus a 5-cm. yellow rod equaled an 8-cm. brown rod...
Gable and Lombard, a steamy account of the King's stormy third marriage, will open early this year. So will W.C. Fields and Me, starring Rod Steiger. Mel Brooks is making a silent comedy, while Peter Bogdanovich is about to start work on a talkie set in the silent era called Nickelodeon. Ken Russell, fresh from destroying Liszt, will now have a go at Valentino, casting Rudolf Nureyev as the screen's greatest lover. Recently, Elia Kazan started to film F. Scott Fitzgerald's own Hollywood novel, The Last Tycoon. Even now, a large German shepherd called...
...Examiner. It reads: "Mac " McKuen. If you may know of the above (spelling may vary) who worked in the Bay Area in 1933 (then aged 27) as a salesman ... pls. call Neilson & Green, S.F. 665-4386. Neilson & Green, it turns out, is a detective agency working for Pop Poet Rod McKuen, who hired the sleuths last month to track down his long-lost father. The poet, whose mother died in 1971, was born an illegitimate child in a Salvation Army hospital in 1933. Father disappeared shortly before his son debuted in 1933. "Having been born a bastard," says Rod...
TACKLES. Dennis Lick, Wisconsin, 6 ft. 4 in., 262 lbs.; and Rod Walters, Iowa, 6 ft. 4 in., 260 lbs. The pros like Lick be cause he "sustains a block," keeping holes open for his running backs and protecting his quarterback for the extra second it often takes to break a big play...
...specific, Harold--is very funny and wildly macabre; the other half-Maude--is maudlin and soppily sentimental. Harold is a nineteen-year-old morto-phile who gets his mother's attention by faking suicide, and Maude is an octogenarian whose "love of life" is on the level of Rod McKuen and Hallmark greeting cards. --Paul K. Rowe...