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...into their ad revenues. Yet the London Times, once considered the most vulnerable of them all, has snapped out of the crisis in a way that has startled Fleet Street. Under its new owner, Lord Thomson, the stodgy "Grey Lady of Printing House Square" has turned into a stylish swinger. In the seven months since the Thomson team took over, her circulation has jumped to 350,000-a 30% increase. "The British have lost an institution," says Columnist Peter Jenkins of the rival Guardian, "but gained a newspaper...
...SEVEN DEADLY ARTS, a comedy about a latent swinger by Harold Kennedy and Robert Koesis, will be at the Playhouse on the Mall, Paramus, N.J., Aug. 1-13, the Country Playhouse, Westport, Conn., Aug. 14-19, and the Playhouse, Falmouth, Mass., Aug. 21-26. Cesar Romero plays the lead...
...SWINGER'S GUIDE TO LONDON by Piri Halasz. 207 pages. Coward-McCann...
...articles that make up this book are also aimed more at the swinger than the history hound, but they are chattier and more discursive. Written by hardened New York novelists and journalists, they cover the town with a cynical gallantry and inverse snobbery typical of the big-city provincial. This prevailing tone accounts for both the strengths and weaknesses of the book. It is authentic-mirroring the New Yorker's romance with artistic success and mechanical failure, Jewishness, the infallibility of cab drivers and elevator men, the superiority of Manhattan parks, ghettos and delicatessens. Tom Wolfe, a Yale...
...swinger's suit for Continental beaches this summer is the new "shiner," which is slicker and shorter than ever and made of glossy "power stretch" and other synthetic fabrics that need no supports, cling to every curve and dimple like a coat of suntan...