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...company with her husband, an ex-stock salesman, she sometimes takes in two plays a night. Then she dashes off a review, headline and all, in as little time as 15 minutes. Why her violent reactions? Explains Claudia: "My strong opinions about anything bad originate from the fact that it makes me suffer so much. It makes me desperate. It kills me." When she retires, the Trib will pay a high compliment to her energy and enterprise. It will assign two men to cover the beat that until now has been handled by one woman...
...really very interesting, Fred," muses his waspish wife. "Take away the eyebrows and what have you got?" What you have is a lumbering, complacent insurance salesman of 27 who likes baseball, television, Peanuts, sex and practically everybody he knows. He is too unendurably dull for Wife Alison, a nattering know-it-all who reads Proust and thinks life should be lived as a work of art. She leaves him, goes back to Stapleton, Pa. Shocked into action, Fred quits his job and solemnly sets out to discover...
...Houston club pro and a cousin of onetime Masters Champion Jack Burke, Marr, 31, is typical of golf's second-magnitude stars. He started as a caddy, worked his way up to pro-shop flunky, golf-club and software salesman, caddy master and teaching pro before setting out five years ago on the tournament trail. He won $12,066 his first year, was up to $37,142 last year, and got his first real taste of glory when he sank a 30-ft. putt to tie Nicklaus for second place (behind Arnold Palmer) in the 1964 Masters...
...winnow out the styles that appeal to them; then go off to persuade manufacturers to make the changes and stores to stock the clothes. Since the merchandise cannot be shown in the magazine until the stores are lined up, the editors often become as aggressive as any Seventh Avenue salesman...
...Miss Porter's prose, his fellow travelers check in to introduce themselves: the troubled and tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish salesman (Germany's Heinz Ruehmann) who can believe no evil of a nation that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. Muses the worldly-wise ship's doctor (Germany's Oskar Werner) with deadly accuracy: "I've seen all these people before. They're on a ship, that...