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...beckoned newspaper ads last week. The commodity on sale: a magazine article offering "penetrating guidance" to "anxious" husbands and wives with "secret worries." What lifted many eyebrows was not the subject of the article but the magazine that touted it: the staid Reader's Digest (world circ. 20 million), which for most of its 36 article-packed, circulation-enriching years has delicately skirted the subject it still refers to in chuckly anecdotes as "the facts of life...
With a mixture of incredulity and nostalgic delight, Britons learned last week that staid St. John's Wood had sustained and harbored a liaison of Edwardian style right into the welfare-state era. In a London court, one Jacqueline Gray, a 41-year-old onetime model, sued 81-year-old Sir Strati Ralli, Bt. (family motto: "Keep to the straight path") for the return of jewelry worth $34,000. Miss Gray charged that Sir Strati had taken the jewelry from her to have it insured, and had refused to return...
...baby, Jim did the star turns at their home in Bray, a seaside village near Dublin. In a morality play staged in the nursery, little Jim wriggled across the floor as the devil, with a rolled-up sheet for a tail, and easily stole the show from Stanislaus' staid Adam and a sister's Eve. It was a pleasant middle-class childhood until Papa Joyce began dragging his brood on an alcoholic long day's journey into night...
Twice after playing with the New York Philharmonic, Violinist Yehudi Menuhin mortified the Philharmonic management by responding to applause with Bach encores, a rash defiance of the Philharmonic's staid traditions. After a third concert for another full house at Carnegie Hall last week, both audience and some orchestra players mischievously sought to applaud Menuhin into another encore. Duly warned to stick rigidly to the program, Menuhin smiled and announced: "I am not allowed . . ." Applause broke out again. Finally, Violinist Menuhin made a little speech: "I am not at all sure you are allowed to applaud either! [Snickers from...
...contrast with its staid morning sister, the 76-year-old Los Angeles Times (circ. 462,257), Norman Chandler's eight-year-old Los Angeles Mirror-News (308,594) is liberal Republican in outlook, breezy in style-and heavily in the red. Last week Chandler announced the "resignation" of the Mirror-News's independent-minded Editor-Publisher Virgil Pinkley, 50, onetime vice president and European manager of the United Press. Pinkley's successor: Hugh A. ("Bud") Lewis, longtime city editor of the Times. His probable first step: to attune the Mirror-News's editorial policy more closely...