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Nine times, with margins ranging up to 75%, the 23rd sent stormy-eyed Democrat Clyde Doyle to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he distinguished himself only as a ranking member of the Un-American Activities Committee. Doyle died in March, and a special election was set for last week...
What got Chicago's vice squad into the act was an eight-page exposure in the June Playboy (circ. 1,250,000) of overripe Actress Jayne Mansfield. In bed and bubblebath, Jayne revealed everything except what an un-Sanforized G string might conceal. But there was nothing particularly unusual about that, for scores of equally nude "playmates" have appeared in the magazine in its 9½-year history. Why the pinch now? "Jayne has more than most," says Hefner by way of explanation. "She makes people nervous...
Wicked Wise. It did, that is, until last fall, when Martha Schlamme recorded a full album of Weill's best compositions. The album includes songs from Weill's days with Brecht, as well as his later and sweeter French and American music (J'attends un navire, My Ship). Last week Interloper Schlamme extended her welcome trespass by turning up in a Bowery theater-café called The Howff with a show devoted entirely to Weill. The show and its setting would have been just right for Lenya, but Schlamme could hardly be better...
...longhand to the author, length and warmth depending on his opinion of the work (one of his highest compliments: "I congratulate myself for having read your book"). In recent months De Gaulle has polished off, among others, Francois d'Harcourt's L'Asie, Reveil d'un Monde, dealing with the diversity of Asian cultures; Edouard Sablier's De I'Oural a I'Atlantique, a dissertation on Communist penetration; L'Histoire Secrete, a history of France from 1936 through the Algerian war; and L'agran-dissement, an abstract novel by Claude Mauriac...
...English have been drinking something with the un-British name of Schweppes ever since a Swiss by the name of Schweppe went to Britain and began to make an artificial mineral water in 1794. Schweppes quinine tonic water, introduced in the 1860s, followed the flag of empire around the world...