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Invading New York last January, Johnson got a tender kiss from Anna Rosenberg, onetime Assistant Defense Secretary in the Truman Administration, and a compliment from a Roman Catholic priest: "Now there's a man I like." Philip Graham, president and publisher of the Washington Post, agrees. "There isn't a single reason why Lyndon Johnson should be President of the United States," he says, "except that he's the best man." Not the least of Johnson's admirers is his wife, Lady Bird, who recently finished a cram course in public speaking and is effectively demonstrating...
...person of a married Englishwoman (Susan Brown) who is a careering editor as well, Don Juan finds his Doña Anna. He woos her with tender memory, and she answers him with Freud. She finds him "quite obviously immature." In her anthropocentric indifference to Heaven and Hell, Don Juan finds a 1960 form of gaiety that is full of desperation, loses his love for her because "if we don't love something greater than ourselves, we are incapable of loving one another...
Time and again Presnell produces a moment of ulcer-perforating tension-deeper and deeper the pitchfork slashes into a load of garbage that conceals the tender bodies of nine children. Yet just as often he relaxes the show with a twinkle of sly ecclesiastical humor-"The soul,'' a middle-aged nun announces as she gazes in seraphic innocence at the motor of a stalled truck, '"is about to depart from the battery.'' Or again, the script jerks the customer out of his socks with a gesture of almost electrocuting theatricality-knocked down by the fist...
Wonton-sized Nancy Ka Shen Kwan (5 ft. 2 in., 104 lbs.) is the most delicate Oriental import since Tetley's tender little tea leaves. Last week 2O-year-old Nancy was before the cameras in London filming The World of Suzie Wong, and from the first frame the part fitted like her own freckles. Furthermore, the new "yum-yum girl" has saved the movie...
...Complaining that the pros play too rough, Philadelphia's Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain blurted out that he was retiring from the N.B.A. at the tender age of 23. Plainly exhausted by the season's grind, Wilt was also disheartened by his team's loss in the Eastern Division playoffs to the champion Boston Celtics. Once rested, Chamberlain will likely decide to console himself with a $100,000 salary offered by Philadelphia. Scoffed Boston's famed Bob Cousy: "Standing 6 ft. i in., it is difficult for me to feel sorry for a man 7 ft. tall...