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...leave from Mamma Rita Hayworth, who is filmmaking in California, for a holiday in France with Papa Aly Khan, trained for the event by chomping an eclair and sloshing it down with lemonade, then went to the post for the children's race at Saint-Pierre-Sur-Dives a two-to-one favorite. Steering her half-sized sulky and Shetland pony Conga, she caught the inside rail and held it, finished a three-length winner. Her purse: two kilos of hard candy. Absent from the railbirds: her horse-loving papa, who was 30 miles away at Deauville with Fiancee...
Died. Dr. Alan Gregg, 66, retired (1956) vice president of the Rockefeller Foundation, director of its medical-sciences division (1930-51), and world leader in public health; after long illness; in Big Sur, Calif. Dr. Gregg joined the foundation in 1919, promoted generous grants to help finance the proving of sulfanilamide (first of the modern wonder drugs) and of penicillin, backed sex studies (including those of the late Alfred C. Kinsey), and pioneered the concept of mental illness as a disease needing specialized treatment...
...SUR AND THE ORANGES OF HIERONYMUS BOSCH (404 pp.)-Henry Miller -New Directions...
...first sight, Miller's latest book seems less a tract for Free Spirits than a robust piece of promotional prose for some chamber of cultural commerce. Big Sur is an artists' colony near Monterey, and Henry Miller is its leading prophet and pressagent. Like all Miller's books, this one contains great jambalayas of jiggery-pokery about everything under the midnight sun, from atomic stockpiling (anti) to Zulus (pro). But the early passages about Miller at Big Sur-wuffling away at the wild waves, sitting in hot sulphur baths, dragging his groceries a mile and a half...
...colony. Nevertheless, a truth is suggested here-a bitter bite from the orange on the tree of knowledge. The vision of an earthly paradise is an ancient delusion. The trouble is not the earth but man. Miller's real estate is magnificent, and the photographs of the Big Sur country are wonderful, but alas, the personnel...