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With his rollicking first show Alan Young apparently put himself into the big time with Milton Berle, Ed Wynn and other topnotch TV comics. Living quietly in Hollywood with his wife and infant daughter (he has two children by his first wife), Young works hard and keeps regular business hours. He says he likes TV and is not worrying too much about the future. For one thing, he can play the bagpipes. If things get too tough, he figures that bagpipes are always good for a scream...
Divorced. John Huston, 43, writer-director of topnotch U.S. Army and Hollywood films (San Pietro, Treasure of Sierra Madre); by Cinemactress Evelyn Keyes, 28, his third wife (he was her third husband); after 3½ years of marriage, one adopted son; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...Karfiol, a nut-brown little walnut of a man, is one of the country's most reserved and most respected artists. In almost half a century of painting he has had less than a dozen one-man shows, but they have earned him a place in a dozen topnotch museums. His latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, showed why Karfiol is famous in spite of himself...
Every year, tens of thousands of lives could be saved in the U.S. if doctors throughout the country knew as much about treating stomach cancer as is known in a few topnotch medical centers. Dr. Carl A. Moyer of Dallas reported this conclusion last week to the Radiological Society of North America at Cleveland...
...conceded that, academically, Oxford was topnotch and that things like "Magdalen Deer Park on a medium cloudy day" were pretty fine. But as for everything else, mourned Burdick: "Youf writers have lifted the illusion so high, and war, proximity, and perhaps even the dollar shortage have forced reality...