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...Nancy winged east to New Jersey, where she was on hand at McGuire Air Force Base early one morning, when Mr. Rock 'n' Roll himself, Sergeant Elvis Presley, got off a plane from West Germany to be mustered out of the Army after a two-year draftee stint. Nancy was indulging no secret crush on Elvis, just helping build up a TV singeroo slated for early May. By then, Elvis will again be supporting himself in the civilian style to which he is currently unaccustomed, collecting a cool $125,000 for a network appearance with Frankie. Elvis, proudly...
...Brueghel, but he modeled himself on George Grosz with a dash of Salvador Dali. The walls of his Park Avenue apartment are lined with pictures that look like bad dreams. King switched to illustrating books for bread-and-butter money, then bolted to journalism, and after his LIFE stint became managing editor of Stage. "Then I really hit bottom," says King. "I started writing plays." None of them were notably successful...
Laid in New Orleans, Toys in the Attic pivots on 34-year-old Julian Berniers, a weak, likable ne'er-do-well who has been protectively kept going by two adoring old-maid sisters who toil and stint for him. Recently he has married an odd, unbalanced rich girl who is possessively happy with him only when they are hard up. Suddenly and mysteriously, Julian manages to get hold of a lot of money. He comes home, cocky and excited, to fling money about, shower everyone with presents, give his sisters passages to Europe and a paid-off mortgage...
High Caliber. Finding a job after a stint in a mental hospital is so tough that many patients, discharged as recovered, become despondent and wind up in the hospital again. Dr. Poindexter wanted to do something about this. So did Warrington Stokes, executive director of the Alameda County Mental Health Association, and Stanley J. Radford, 38, a salesman who had spent six months in a VA hospital after a breakdown. It was Radford who noticed that two University of California students were building up a toy-manufacturing business, sold them the idea of recruiting their work force from former mental...
...from first vice president to president of Manhattan's William Esty Co., 17th largest U.S. advertising agency (1959 billings: an estimated $75 million), succeeding James J. Houlahan, 52, who became chairman and will remain chief executive officer. Peace went to work for Esty in 1941 after a brief stint at Fordham, has been there since except for Army service during World War II. He was moved up to the presidency while still young because Chairman Houlahan feels that "the peak years of creativity for a president are between the late...