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...went on what, I suppose, was the longest wake in history." When the wake ended, Actress Taylor (who is 61) was well on in middle age, very choosy-and good roles for her did not grow on trees. Says she: "It was either acting old mountaineer crones who spit tobacco juice in their son's eye-or Ibsen. I couldn't chew tobacco and I wouldn't be found dead in A Doll's House...
...brigadier he serves quietly and creditably through the First World War-and catches sight of a nurse (Deborah Kerr again) who is the spit & image of the young woman whose loss in Berlin confirmed him in bachelorhood. After the war he marries her. Together, in a British prisoner-of-war camp, they seek out and are coldly rebuffed by Candy's old friend, the Prussian officer. Candy's young wife dies; and the walls of his home, through the years, grow ever more thickly studded with the big-game victims of his soldierly loneliness...
Lieut. General George S. Patton insists on spit & polish. Soldier-Cartoonist Bill Mauldin pictures G.I.s as grimy and unshaven. Patton recently threatened to ban Stars & Stripes from his Army area unless Mauldin's well-plugged uglies tidied themselves up. Mauldin came back with a cartoon dig at the general. Navy Captain Harry Butcher, General Eisenhower's top aide, told the two to get together...
...Author. At 57, Edna Ferber is white-haired, handsome and still single. She attributes her fabulous success to the fact that "I write about fundamental things-love, marriage, hardship, vitality, country -the things writers used to spit at." Besides this, she explains, "I try to write in language people can understand. Not primer stuff, but simple language and thoughts everybody has." One of Author Ferber's prime annoyances (it has been bothering her for years) is the opprobrium which she feels is attached in the U.S. to the term "best-seller." "What's wrong with writing a book...
...inaccessible to rocket fire from the earth. Thus it forms an ideal site for supplies, factories, munitions works, etc. Well placed emplacements on this side of the moon, on the other hand, could command every part of the earth as if it were a chicken turning on a spit, simply waiting for New York or Moscow to come within range.... A sketch is enclosed...