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Charming Yet Tortuous. Stein's half-dozen "witches in modern dress" were all youthfully slender, lively of expression, some of them bucktoothed and "prancing" of gait. Although they were married and active sexually, they secretly dreaded the sex act and remained "psychically virgins." They had a "miniminy mouth"; that is, they were " 'mim,' prim, reticent, shy, affected." They tended to be frigid, attract weak, boyish men, hated kissing on the mouth (a witch's kiss was believed to draw out the soul). Often they had affairs, mainly with married men. They hated and hurt...
...grand ballroom of Chicago's Sheraton-Blackstone Hotel at week's end for the usual convention epilogue, Utah Committeeman Calvin Rawlings dutifully offered a resolution praising National Committee Chairman Paul M. Butler for the 1956 convention arrangements. Other committee members rose to add their praise. Suddenly, slender, intense Paul Butler was sobbing. When the white-haired Indianan had regained control of himself, he faced the committee. "I'm sure you do not realize," he said as his voice caught in his throat, "are writing my political epitaph. In a moment, I shall submit my resignation...
Will the veiled sister between the slender...
Least Luxurious Club. He has stayed at Columbia ever since, rising through the Ph.D. treadmill ("The most expensive and least luxurious club in the world") and then through the ranks to his present position as dean of the graduate faculties. A tall, slender, willowy man of 48, he remains what he has always been-a brilliant, courtly, unruffable scholar whose whole life seems to be his work. Few besides his most intimate friends have met his wife, the former Mariana Lowell of Boston, or been inside his book-filled apartment in Manhattan's East 80s, or met his nine...
...Slender, handsome, kind-hearted and a spectacular orator, he is the most popular man in Indonesia. No Indonesian can outtalk him; he has survived innumerable revolts, more than a dozen Cabinet changes, a restive army. He has skimmed John Dewey, Marx, Lenin, Jefferson, Lincoln, John Reed, Otto Bauer, and is still tingling over the discoveries. Dotes on American history, but at times comes up with such historical whoppers as: "There was lack of law and order in America for 60 years following the Revolution." Enjoys painting, good conversation, the company of pretty women. Divorced his first wife...