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Compulsive Talker. Comedienne Diller nearly always mentions her own brood of children: "They're for sale, and those who aren't working are marked down." The oldest is a 20-year-old college stu dent, and all five live with an aunt and a grandmother. Their father, Sherwood Diller, travels the circuit with Phyllis as husband-manager (by train, since she is fond of dresses, uses 22 suitcases...
Immediately after the Princeton contest, the Crimson varsity will head for Philadelphia's Penn-Sherwood Hotel and the match at the University of Pennsylvania. If the team can beat Princeton, it is inconceivable that it lose to Penn. On the other hand, should Princeton dump the varsity, the psychological effect might be enough to overcome Harvard's definite superiority over Penn on paper...
...train and, of course, made himself an expert on electric trains. He still manages to knock back heroic quantities of Sekt (German champagne), may sit up all hours drinking beer and arguing furiously with newsmen or fellow politicians. He reads three to four books a week: currently, besides Robert Sherwood's Roosevelt and Hopkins, he is devouring a heap of volumes on a new interest, Africa. He has not lost his lust for Latin. On an indifferently argued staff paper he scribbles: "0 sancta sim-plicitas...
...kept working to perfection. The periscope runs a constant double check on the Cadillac-sized SINS (ship's inertial navigation system), which tracks the sub's underwater course with pinpoint accuracy. The missiles are housed gently in their tubes in the compartment that the submen call "Sherwood Forest." They must be wet-nursed hour by hour, their computers prepared to receive fire-control data, their gyros kept warmed and ready, their switches checked and rechecked so that they can be fired on 15 minutes' notice. The main atomic power plants must be tended by technicians with...
...rate whore, and apparently the strain of battling the built-in deficiencies of the role made her decide to quit. Eileen Heckart, as an often Auntie Mame-like Deedee Grogan, handles wise-cracks, insults, and pathos equally well, and looks appropriately garish in Miss Ballard's costumes. Madeleine Sherwood is hateful enough as Norma's mother, and Richard Derr, as the father of many, is grey flannel through and through...