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...weekly alimony; Bimini Beachboy Adam Clayton Powell, 58, whose estranged wife Yvette, 35, has wearied of waiting for him to return to her in Puerto Rico, has finally filed suit for divorce and separate maintenance of $1,500 a month; Palm Beach Socialite Nancy Wiman ("Trink") Carter Wakeman, 47, an heiress to the John Deere tractor fortune, who wound up a row with her playboy second husband William Wakeman, 44, by pointing a .22 pistol at him, firing one shot into his back when he sneered that she hadn't the nerve to shoot, now stands accused of "aggravated...
...person who holds the answer is Conrad Hilton-and he is bored by the subject. "You see," says Olive Wakeman, "Mr. Hilton won't face things that aren't nice." An eternal optimist, Hilton considers everything about himself and his way of life indestructible and unchanging-unless he changes it. Resting up one fine afternoon recently before a globe-girdling trip, he sat on the terrace of his enchanted house in Bel Air, a fistful of peanuts in his hand. Loudly he whistled again and again for a half-domesticated bluejay named Chairman of the Board. The bird...
...financial genius, he's the kind of man who can't catch a plane by himself." He is essentially a lonely man, and his closest friend is neither a businessman nor one of his four children, but his personal secretary for 21 years, Olive Wakeman, fiftyish, who acts as his chief buffer against the outside world. "I've got to protect him," she says. "He's the most naive man for his experience I've ever seen; he will not believe that anyone would tell an untruth...
...Wakeman, in The Hucksters, who began the Madison Avenue genre, but none of Wakeman's imitators approached him for Great Moments. There were three genuine Moments in the book: the first when Victor Norman-Hamlet as hid den persuader-threw away his black knit necktie and bought a sincere $35 hand-painted number on the way to a job interview; the second when Norman, newly hired as an account executive at $35,000 per, amusedly dropped $8 out of his office window; and the third when Norman watched his client. Evan Llewelyn Evans, spit on the boardroom table...
...Wakeman had dropped from sight after The Hucksters, he might have been remembered as the Jack London of Manhattan's midtown. Instead, he kept on turning out novels, risking the law of averages. A Free Agent is the worst of a dreary descent. The author has lost his knack of writing badly well. Worse news, the hero is not world-wise but incredibly doltish, even allowing for the fact that he is supposed to be some kind of intelligence agent...