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...that sets many men to looking wistfully ahead toward retirement, Reuben Lucius Goldberg embarked on a new career. Into limbo he chucked Boob McNutt, Mike and Ike -They Look Alike, and Professor Lucifer Gorgonzola Butts, the not-so-mad inventor who gave the world such useful devices as the stamp-licking machine. In the next 26 years, Rube Goldberg produced some 5,000 editorial cartoons. But his heart was never really in his work. And last week, at 80 - an age that sets most men to peering wistfully back toward their youth - Goldberg embarked on a new career...
Charles de Gaulle towers over people as an inspirational figure, and even his expressions of humor are somehow Alpine; Defferre stands solidly among people, with all the warmth and wit that stamp him a man of the Mediterranean...
Glad Tidings. "Writing," he says, "must extend itself into a whole new sense of factuality. When you find a woman, for instance, obsessed with her plaid-stamp book, I think you perhaps have something there that would be in the nature of an altogether new truth. It is quite possible that a woman who goes to sleep and dreams of getting a new plaid-stamp book is not quite as undignified as she appears to be. People actually sidestep the pain of death and despair by the thought of purchasing things. I am a traditionalist. I live...
...more and run upstairs for dessert. In Hollywood last week, it was Jack Lemmon, writer at Universal Pictures, and his secretary, played by his handsome wife, Felicia Farr. Entering his office in a very low-cut dress, she picked up an envelope and licked it, then licked a stamp. Then she ate a pencil, slowly. Lemmon ate a pencil. Then they both started eating erasers, blotters, letter openers, a telephone, never taking their eyes off one another. "Let's go to lunch," he panted...
...stranger being the American consciousness. America both fascinated and infuriated Lawrence, and his famed Studies in Classic American Literature was shrill, derisive, but continuingly provocative. The Symbolic Meaning, a collection of earlier versions of the same essays, is considerably calmer in tone, but both versions bear the unmistakable stamp of Lawrence's chaotic, irascible mind. He saw the underlying theme of U.S. literature as the "disintegration of the primal self." "On the top it is nice as pie, goody-goody and lovey-dovey. Like Hawthorne being such a blue-eyed darling, in life, and Longfellow and the rest such...