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...most poisonous pen on Broadway is wielded by Critic John Simon. Reviewing the new play Nellie Toole & Co. in New York magazine, Simon dipped into strychnine to describe the star, Sylvia Miles, 41, as "one of New York's leading party girls and gate-crashers." Streperous Sylvia, who was acclaimed as the prostitute in Midnight Cowboy, wasted no time talking back. Invited to the same New York Film Festival party as Simon, she piled her plate with pat, steak tartare, brie and potato salad and dumped it over him. "Now you can call me a plate crasher...
Last Spring the Harvard Corporation appointed Alberta B. Arthurs, formerly an associate professor of English at Rutgers, dean of the three part post. Working with her as director of admissions is Mary Ann Schwalbe '55, who has worked in the office for the last eight years. Sylvia T. Simmons will continue as director of Financial Aid and as an associate dean of admissions. The Office of Women's Education (OWE) is the competely new component in Arthurs's office. As yet it has no director, although a search committee has been interviewing candidates for several months. Arthurs said last week...
...would not have placed in a baby contest, but there they were, looking surprisingly like their grown-up selves. From Baby Adolf Hitler to Altar Boy Richard Daley, the passel of snapshots and more formal portraits had been assembled somewhat irreverently in a paperback album, As They Were, by Sylvia Topp and Tuli Kupferberg. Little Walter Cronkite sported short pants and big ears; Sammy Davis Jr. at three looked like a refugee from Our Gang; Marlene Dietrich was demurely Victorian, with a tiny heart-shaped locket and crossed ankles. As a baby, Baby Dr. Benjamin Spock wore a wide-brimmed...
...obituary. He was much too alive ever to die, and much too real to be written about in the usual obituary words. The New York Times said after he died that the Grolier Bookshop was an American equivalent of Shakespeare and Company, and that Gordon was like Sylvia Beach. A lot of people who never knew him must have believed that, but of course it wasn't true. Gordon was a tough old Canadian, not a purple-ascotted Left Bank aesthete...
Maugham was furious at the suggestion. Now Calder advances proof -direct testimony supported by persuasive circumstance-that Rosie was based on a woman named Ethelwyn Sylvia Jones. As Calder reconstructs it, she was the second daughter of a minor playwright, herself an actress, beautiful, intelligent, full-blown, artlessly warmhearted. Maugham met her in 1904. Their affair lasted until...