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...judge's values without having any clear-cut standards of his own. He is at the testing age. He tests his bravery soloing a plane and his manhood with a prostitute. But the test of his humanity comes when he tries to befriend a fellow teen-ager named Sherman Pew. Sherman is a blue-eyed Negro orphan who was found in a church pew. He is as wary as a porcupine and just about as tactful. In odd moments of disarming color-blind candor, Sherman and Jester are as glowingly close as two lovers...
...judge is that he can get the Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher, but his fantasy is that his mother is some noted Negro show business celebrity who was raped by a white man. All of these fantasies are punctured by melodramatic devices-including the single most horrifying episode in the book, the strangulation of Jester's dog-that...
...Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...Caccia, wife of departing British Ambassador Sir Harold Caccia, unveiled a favorite essay in oils. Setting of the painting: the swimming pool at the rented Virginia summer estate of New York's Senator Jacob Javits. Lady Caccia's model: the spouse of Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper, sun-shy Lorraine Cooper, who totes a pastel parasol even when campaigning with her husband in the backwoods...
...President Charles Tillinghast, whom the trustees had put in to run TWA. On one occasion Hughes threatened to bring suit against the airline for ignoring his wishes. Last week, instead. TWA's management filed suit against Hughes. Hughes Tool Co. and Raymond Holliday for alleged violation of the Sherman and Clayton antitrust acts. TWA's avowed hope: to win a court order obliging Hughes to get rid of all stock in TWA and to cease trying to exercise control over the line...