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...Sylvia Porter' s Money Book, Porter...
NONFICTION 1−Sylvia Porter' s Money Book, Porter (1) 2−Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (2) 3−Winning Through Intimidation, Ringer (3) 4−Money, Galbraifh (5) 5−The Relaxation Response, Benson (6) 6−Power!, Korda (4) 7−Making It in the Market, Ney 8−Against Our Will, Brownmiller 9−Total Fitness, Morehouse & Gross (8) 10−TM: Discovering Inner Energy and Overcoming Stress, Bloomfield, Coin & Jafte...
...also appears that Sylvia took to heart every bit of propaganda ever put out by the Protestant ethic, college deans of admission and the slick fashion magazines of the '50s. In addition to grinding out straight A's and submitting potboilers to True, "to keep our pot of caviar boiling," she wanted desperately to be "well-rounded." Thus during weekends at Yale or Princeton Sylvia undertook her blind-date excursions cheerfully, and tried to include them in her mother's vicarious life. "Picture me then," she gloats, "in my navy-blue bolero suit and versatile brown coat...
With her blonde good looks and long legs (which she considered her best feature) Sylvia was popular, but none of the dates measured up. She wanted a "colossus." She thought such a man might be found in England and applied for a Fulbright grant ("If only I get accepted at Cambridge! My whole life would explode in a rainbow...
Mental Agony. Sylvia was accepted, and in 1956 found her colossus in the young British poet Ted Hughes. Even in her first ecstasies, there are forecasts of trouble: "I have fallen terribly in love, which can only lead to great hurt. I met the strongest man in the world, a large, hulking, healthy Adam with a voice like the thunder...