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Butterfield 8. The crude but affecting tart's tragedy of the O'Hara novel has become a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller -featuring Elizabeth Taylor as an enthusiastic amateur...
Butterfield 8 (MGM) as a novel by John O'Hara was a crude but affecting tart's tragedy. As a film, it has been turned into a sleek and libidinous lingerie meller...
These suicide tips are Dr. Peter J. Steincrohn's shock treatment for businessmen in his tart, trenchant book: Mr. Executive: Keep Well-Live Longer (Frederick Fell; $4.95). In a medical memo addressed to the health hazards and cures of the stresses of life in the executive suite, Dr. Steincrohn, who is also a newspaper columnist (60 papers), makes a plea for good sense and moderation in the businessman's own terms. "The prematurely sick or dead executive is a failure," says Steincrohn. "He has let down his family, his friends, his corporation. And often the executive most brilliant...
Irma La Douce. A French musical as fetching and airy as a bouffant petticoat stars Elizabeth Seal, whose song-and-dance skill and saucy insouciance flesh out her personable part as everybody's dream tart...
Died. Elivera Mathilda Carlson Doud, 82, mother of Mamie Eisenhower; of a stroke; in Denver. Daughter of Swedish immigrants, she was born in Boone, Iowa, at 16 married Meat Packer John Doud (who died in 1951). A witty woman with a tart tongue, she moved to Denver in 1904, lived and died in the same house the Douds bought then. To Ike she was "Min"-after Mrs. Andy Gump in the comic strip: she got the nickname from Ike and her two daughters, who would kiddingly chorus, "Oh, Min!" when John Doud, in search of missing apparel, called, "Oh, Mother...