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SEND ME NO FLOWERS. Rock Hudson is an exurban hypochondriac who persuades himself that the hereafter is at hand, Doris Day is his widow-to-be, and Tony Randall is the sprightly crapehanger next door...
When PT-109 was rammed by a Japanese destroyer, two members of Lieut, (j.g.) John F. Kennedy's crew lost their lives. The skipper wrote to relatives of both men, praising their heroism, and to the widow of Torpedoman Second Class Jack Kirksey Kennedy wrote four letters. "If a captain is fortunate," said the first, "he finds one man in his crew who contributes more than his share. Jack Kirksey was that man." Last week the letters brought $9,500 in Manhattan, highest price yet paid at auction for a memento of the late President...
...BRIGADIER AND THE GOLF WIDOW, by John Cheever. In these short stories, the author writes again of exurbia: the proletariat of vice presidents, the charming, irresponsible remnants of old families, and the winning eccentrics...
...Brigadier and the Golf Widow, Cheever...
...travel agent reappears with irreverent celerity. He draws the widow's hand toward him across the kitchen table, suddenly bends to kiss it, just as suddenly discovers the hand withdrawn and his lips pressed tenderly to a table mat. The next frame, however, finds them bouncing around on her bed, and for the next 80 minutes they hardly ever leave it-except to hurry over and bounce around on his bed. Sometimes they bounce all over the floor. Sometimes they bounce blindfolded. Once they land somehow in a large wooden chest . . . and discreetly lower...