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...Broadway may have weakened Author Bissell's resistance to the charms of the old ladies from Dubuque. He now lives just up the road a piece from Times Square in Exurbia, Connecticut, with his wife and four children, gets along with two station wagons and an old taxi he picked up in London, and resolutely rights off the old nostalgia for his two Mississippi River houseboats. No matter how many agents get pieces of Dick Bissell, there will probably always be one piece of him that is pure Midwest...
...reflect their audience's view of society. Unlike white-collar women, the Macfadden people explain, Wage-Town women "seem to see all men as more powerful figures: dominant, independent, sexually active and demanding, and, over all, as more mature than women." Says Editor Dorrance: "In the movies the taxi driver, the waitress, the drop-forge operator are comic relief. In our magazine they're the hero and heroine. We have no comic figures. Women, after all. have little sense of humor...
...Manhattan taxi driver recently mistook Norman Vincent Peale for a physician. After grumping about the weather and shrugging off the Rev. Dr. Peak's cheery rejoinders ("Good old rain"), the cabby turned to state his symptoms: "Say doc, I've got some pains in my back. I feel terrible." As Author Peale tells it. he replied: "Although I'm not accustomed to practicing in taxicabs, I think you have psycho-sclerosis...
...goal of A.F.L.-C.I.O., will probably be passed by Congress this year. Unions want to extend law to 10 million more Americans (now covered: 24 miliion) to cover most workers for big companies engaged in interstate trade, plus some in retail trade and service, laundry and dry cleaning, communications, taxi business. Next goal: boost minimum wage to $1.25 from $1 an hour...
...each). An expatriate, he lives in hotel rooms from Europe to the Levant, has little social life, usually eats alone and frugally, wears out-at-the-elbow sweaters. A notorious penny pincher, he passes out tips sparingly, constantly grumbles about the high cost of everything from restaurant food to taxi fares. But he freely pays thousands for such hobbies as his private art museum (Rubens, Titian, Gainsborough, and perhaps the best U.S. collection of Louis XV and XVI furniture) and the zoo (four buffalo, two bears, an Abyssinian mountain goat), adjoining the Malibu home he has not visited in five...