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...probably in wedlock. Another hopeful outcome is that Play wright Owen is now drafting a sequel: Female of the Species, starring Elizabeth Taylor and Claire Bloom. It is scheduled for NBC in January. Owen refuses to comment on whether NBC has asked them to milk down ("Pastoreize," in TV slang) Female for Americans in this season of censorship...
Loesser was something of a family black sheep. He showed a distinct preference for baseball, slang and jazz-all alien to the cultural traditions of his European-emigrant parents. His German father was an eminent New York piano teacher, his Czech mother a lecturer and translator of books. Brother Arthur was a well-known concert pianist, critic and teacher until his death last January. As for Frank, he lasted out the early days of the Depression on hustle and odd jobs, then began singing his own songs for his supper at an East Side night spot. That...
...Charles arrived in February, and for the next six months took 50-to-60 mile hikes in the outback, cooked johnnycakes over his own campfire, fed the pigs and chickens, and chopped wood by the cord. His schoolmates were friendly, though he recalls being chaffed as a "Pom" (Aussie slang for an Englishman) on at least one occasion. "I had an umbrella with me," he said. "It had been raining quite heavily, and they all looked rather quizzically at this strange English thing, and as I walked out there were marvelous shouts of 'Oh, Pommy bastard...
...parents alike he is known for pulling out a harmonica and zipping through Hebrew folk songs; he has the stand-up comic's uncanny ability to mimic revealing snips of parent-child dialogue. He is at home quoting both Tolstoy and Bob Dylan, and can rattle off 58 slang terms for drugs. Says the Today show's Barbara Walters, who plans to begin applying Ginottisms to her own eleven-month-old daughter as soon as she is old enough to talk: "There's nobody else who can put together his combination of psychology, common sense, and Harry...
Although Okinawa has its own chief executive, he is subordinate to the American High Commissioner, who currently is Lieut. General James B. Lampert. The "Hicom," as local slang dubs him, has full veto power over all island legislation, can intervene in civil and criminal legal matters at will and even remove any public official from office...