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...High School to discover that he lacked half a credit to get into college. The thought of going back was too much ("What a miserable four years"), and so he went to work as a cartoonist's assistant. Drafted during the Korean war, Feiffer put in two sad-sack years Stateside, was discharged as a PFC. That rank still nettles Feiffer. Says he: "I didn't want them to give me anything...
Though there are some eddies of eccentricity among a few designers, e.g., evening dresses with a "hula hoop'' motif, all the big houses have done their best to please the women who last year looked boxy and sexless in sack dresses-and complained about it so loudly that the new trend in bathing suits is the Italian bikini...
...graduates of schools of creative writing, summer conferences, or writers' workshops. He pays four years' advance rent on an attic, a "cave" where he can "agonize in secret," buys some paper, a Waterman Ideal pen, a bed, a mug, a plate, a crate of oranges and a sack of coarse oatmeal. Except that he is "tired and sick to death of all people who on earth do dwell," he has no enemy in the world. But soon he has plenty. They range from "rhypokondylose* violent stultified editors" to literary agents who are "effete homuncules" or "detected Jesuit...
UNITED AUTO WORKERS union is in red, has cut budget $425,000, will sack several staffers...
...never quite cope with life's ludicrous little defeats. Wherever he slouched in front of an audience-last month on the bare bandstand of a Chicago nightclub, this week before the unforgiving cameras of Ed Sullivan's TV show-it seemed hardly probable that sad-sack Monologuist Shelley Berman could deliver...