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...Nobody messed with Thelonious," he recalls, "but they used to call me 'Monkey,' and you know what a drag that was." His father returned to the South alone to recover from a long illness, leaving Monk's mother, a sternly correct civil servant, to work hard to give her three children a genteel polish. At eleven, Thelonious began weekly piano lessons at 75¢ an hour...
Ever since Forrestal's death, people have wondered why such a splendid career came to such a squalid end. For James Forrestal was an outstanding public servant, a key figure in the crucial postwar years. He was indeed a man of parts, but whose parts did not seem to mesh. He was, on the one hand, tough and commanding; on the other, sensitive and guilt-ridden. Now Arnold Rogow, a political science professor at Stanford, has skillfully pieced the parts together in a first biography of Forrestal...
...Flora Goforth, the rich, raffish ex-Follies girl dying in her Italian mountaintop villa, has lost fire. When Hermione Baddeley played Flora, the dark power of death was as chilling as her nighttime screams. The second Mrs. Goforth, Tallulah Bankhead, seems to regard death as part of the servant problem, a petty retainer whom she can sack with a throaty rumble of brandy-voiced regality. Perhaps actressing is a better word for her performance than acting...
...were used against the women but were no match for flying vegetables. Presidents & Doctors. Though most market women barely manage to keep their families alive, some strike it rich. In La Paz, a hard-working market woman can make $100 a month, which is twice what a Bolivian civil servant or factory worker makes. Two years ago, when a market woman applied for a U.S. visa in La Paz, she was asked about her financial security and produced $20,000 in U.S. greenbacks. What do they do with their earnings? They spend them on corn liquor or such local variations...
...last week the loyal servant turned against his master: Gibbons not only resigned as Hoffa's aide but joined a move to oust Jimmy from the Teamsters' presidency. Turning in their resignations at the same time were four other Hoffa assistants...