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Harlow was one of the most lurid and luminous love goddesses Hollywood ever had. But never in her 26 importunate years-she died in 1937 of uremic poisoning-was Jean Harlow so exploited as in this purported biography produced by Bill Sargent's Electronovision Inc. The real Harlow was jade of purest quality; Sargent's Carol Lynley plays her as a pale finishing-school dropout turned unfinished actress, capturing the walk but not the talk. And Lynley is appropriately supported. Ginger Rogers and Barry Sullivan are grotesquely grasping as her stage mother and stepfather; Efrem Zimbalist Jr., playing...
...left by Bill Moyers, who has been on leave from the Peace Corps as a White House special assistant. An Arizonan, Wiggins left a distinguished twelve-year career with the U.S.'s foreign aid programs to join the Peace Corps, has been credited by Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver as being "more than any other man" responsible for making the Corps work. Wiggins will supervise the activities of the Peace Corps' 10,683 volunteers and far-flung staff, including his parents, aged 67 and 66, who recently returned from a two-year stint as volunteers in Peru...
LIKE many portraitists, John Singer Sargent had to endure the pique of sitters who did not like the results. A portrait, he once said, is a painting "with a little something wrong about the mouth...
...John Sargent, 33, a Korean War marine veteran of New London, N.H., called his minister to his home to report the killing of his wife and four children. Police found Mrs. Janet Sargent, 30, bludgeoned and shot to death; the children, aged three to nine, had been shot. Sargent, variously described as "the nicest guy in the world," "morose," and one who "just couldn't make his way in life," was charged with first-degree murder and sent to the state mental hospital for examination...
...Ford grant is a tribute to James B. Conant '14, the imaginative President Emeritus of Harvard, who conceived the Nieman Foundation," Sargent said yesterday. "We are also indebted to Louis M. Lyons, the Curator for 25 years, who developed the program and molded it into an institution of great durability and service...