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Look, No Horns. As for Ellender, he complained that he had been misquoted -but a transcript of his remarks snowed that he had sure enough said all those unkind things. His denial made some Africans even madder. In Southern Rhodesia the Bulawayo Chronicle, which first defended Ellender's right of free speech, now called him a "polecat" who lacks the "courage of his convictions...
...million copies (mostly in paperbacks) around the world, and are bestsellers in Communist countries, Caldwell mused sadly on the low state of his reputation at home. "I'm not read very much in the South," he said, "because they are very touchy about what they regard as unkind criticism. And I'm not thought much of in the North either." But he had no apologies for his popularity abroad. "Russians and Europeans get a less erroneous image of America from my books than they do from American films about a mink-penthouse-Cadillac society...
...reddish hair," he said, "and I don't remember the color of her eyes. I'd like to forget her com pletely." "If you ask me if I have had a happy life, I must say no. I have had an extremely unhappy life." Withal, the unkind years have merely honed the battle-ax wit of England's oddball poetess Dame Edith Sitwell, who, upon turning 75, looked ahead to her official birthday celebration at London's Festival Hall next month. There, she insists, she will appear baroquely bedecked in a red velvet gown, black...
Vidal can be even better writing about literature. He ticks off one of Broadway's more annoying current mannerisms: "Just name your problem, sit back, and let love solve it: race prejudice, foreign relations -even Job reeling beneath the unkind attentions of a dubious Yale God gets off the hook at the end through Love, which has now replaced the third-act marines of a simpler time." And in a piece lamenting a supposed decline in satire, he proposes an excellent canon for satirists in an age that has gone mushy with tolerance: "As long as any group within...
...grapes), and ten strolling violinists. "I wanted them to play Stradivaris," said Sahara's Host Manny Skar, who was once convicted of burglary, "but my insurance wouldn't cover it." Manny is aggrieved that local newspapers have been digging up his past. "It is callous and unkind to repeatedly allude to my mistakes of long ago. Some of the people whom I know may not be entirely antiseptic. But most are banking, labor, civic, industrial, philanthropic leaders and members of the press." The grand opening last week was graced by Bobby Darin and George Kirby-with such headliners...