Word: svengalis
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...Name of the Game recently had Gene Barry playing a magazine publisher kidnaped by a group of young radicals who planned to kill themselves at an Army chemical-warfare test site. It soon became clear that the pacifists were actually dupes of a young hippie-style Svengali, who had talked the others into a mass suicide because of his own hatred of society. Even Judd for the Defense, which has sympathized with alcoholics and black militants, doesn't always dig kids. A show last month presented high school lads who were so hopelessly hung up on pot that they...
...Humphrey, it is Dr. Edgar Berman, 53, an ex-surgeon from Baltimore who is not only the candidate's physician without pay but also his close friend, campaign adviser and omnipresent critic. If a Humphrey administration were to have a Colonel House, a Harry Hopkins-or even a Svengali-some jealous campaign aides suggest it would be Edgar Berman...
...Democratic National Chairman John M. Bailey declared that Romney had "insulted the integrity" of General William C. Westmoreland and former Ambassador to Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge because "they were responsible for the briefings he received." Protested Republican Lodge, who with Westmoreland stood accused-at least indirectly-of having played Svengali to Romney's Trilby: "I never brainwashed anybody in my life...
...Summer. As the faithful friend, longtime Svengali, and now the husband of Melina Mercouri (they were married last May), Director Jules Dassin periodically attempts to trap some of her wild Greek energy on film. His tempestuous Trilby, in her sixth Dassin movie, proves just one thing: the family that plays together does not alway make a Never on Sunday...
Married. Jane Fonda, 27, Henry's leggy daughter (Cat Ballon); and Roger Vadim, 37, French director (Circle of Love), Svengali to three cinematic bombes (Brigitte Bardot and Annette Stroyberg, both of whom he married, and Catherine Deneuve); he for the third time; at the Dunes Hotel in Las Vegas...