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...wheel and deal in a world where Chips have fallen and sharp young men in Brown Tweed Suits thrive on perpetual opportunity. Compared with the C.O.D. wooing of baseball players, or even with the corporate kidnaping of business executives, the art of hiring professors is so subtle, so roundabout, that it requires the delicacy of a Chinese marriage broker...
...Avance, shuttered by the regime in January, prints 10,000 copies of a 6-in. by 9-in. miniature of a handsome, slick-paper tabloid, which are sneaked into Cuba by volunteer travelers, fishing boats, and roundabout from South America and Europe through unwatched commercial mails. Editor Jorge Zayas, aggressive heir to a publishing dynasty and grandson of a former President of Cuba, plans to add Miami social notes to the paper's steady diet of Cuban colony news. Although an estimated 7,500 copies of Avance reach Cuba every week (at least 2,500 are confiscated or dumped...
Even after the delay, it made its point: that the Atlas can reach any target in the world from hardened bases in the continental U.S. And it proved that the missile has enough extra boost to indulge in a roundabout, enemy-confusing route...
Last week, as a roundabout result of these international developments, a lively New Wavelet of cinematic creativity was rolling across the U.S. and gathering momentum by the moment. The beatnik film, Pull My Daisy, which runs only 29 minutes but seems considerably longer, is a sort of celluloid-muffled Howl. Financed (for $20,000) by a couple of Manhattan brokers, it features a few well-known beat bards (Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso, Peter Orlovsky) in a "free improvisation" on a scene from an unproduced play by Jack (On the Road) Kerouac. The beatniks stumble around a pad on Manhattan...
...Moppet. Newell arrived in the coaching profession in a roundabout fashion. Son of a Knights of Columbus official, he is the youngest of eight children ("I was 13 before I knew that there was anything but a neck to a chicken"). When his family moved to Los Angeles from Vancouver, he was pushed into the movies by his mother, became a moppet movie star, acted with Theda Bara and Pauline White. Newell played in the silents for three years to the delight of neighborhood wise guys, recalls: "I probably had more fights than any other...