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...that hookers serve a valid social function by providing sexual and emotional services to men who can't find them anywhere else. Director Sgarro, in his offhand way, is suggesting that prostitution is a joyful business, marred only by those occasional raids by those mean, harrow-minded policemen who spoil all the fun. He's not remotely interested in the thousands of women who have turned tricks on 42nd Street for 5 bucks a shot, who have been beaten by the cops, their pimps, their johns, their boyfriends, and who will always be poor, Xaviera, always dressed in white...
...Mining Association, Jones, now 70, has directed teams that have successfully planted 36 million trees on strip-mined land in 17 counties. His accomplishments have won over some formerly implacable foes of surface mining who now agree with Jones that the technique has its place-as long as the spoil banks turn green again. "Coal for today, timber for tomorrow," Jones says cheerfully...
...Liners. Forestry officials estimate that Jones' experiments with various trees have sped the reforestation of Pennsylvania's spoil banks by at least 50 years, an achievement that has earned him a roomful of conservation and forestry awards. He shares his findings with anybody who wants them. Every year about 2,000 visitors-university agronomists, Government foresters and ordinary citizens-come to see his farm and meet the adman turned agrarian...
Lillian Hellman, Litt.D., playwright. Aware of the ways of the foxes who spoil the harvest, her voice is satiric, uncompromising, compelling...
...Essendine, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. emphasizes the childish charm of his old chum Coward. Theatrically, this is a wise decision. The slightest stress on what can only be called the sadomasochistic implications of Essendine's relationships with his clan could easily spoil the evening. It is much better to let the unbitter truthfulness of the writing steal over one later. Excepting Fairbanks and George Pentecost as a comically clumsy young playwright, the cast, which includes Jane Alexander and Ilka Chase, never quite achieves the sense of giddy weightlessness that a Coward comedy should have. Still, the players at least sense...