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...Harrison, publisher of Wink and Flirt, switched on his TV set one day and found himself watching the hearings of the Kefauver anti-Crime Committee. "It was a great show--I sat through it to the end," he recalls. "And as I was watching, it dawned on me that this sort of 'inside stuff' was a lot better than cheesecake." Unwittingly, he had stumbled upon the basic formula for a new type of magazine...
...Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral, with its far nobler picture of a man who had put aside ambition-even spiritual ambition-and found a faith so strong that he could joyfully accept death as its price: I have had a tremor of bliss, a wink of heaven, a whisper, And I would no longer be denied; all things Proceed to a joyful consummation...
Before any of his guests could wink a confident eye, Ike expressed some doubts that lay heavily on his mind. He is a man, the President said, who likes to see younger men brought to the forefront and given an opportunity in the top jobs, so that their vitality and ideas can be employed in solving the nation's problems. Then there was another consideration. No President in history, Ike said, had reached his 70th birthday in the White House. The presidency was a grueling job, he said; it worked a certain physical erosion...
...magazine. A sleek-haired, gruff-talking showoff, Bachelor Harrison drives a white Cadillac, making the rounds of New York City nightclubs "wherever romance beckons me." Manhattan-born, Harrison started out in publishing after working as a writer for movie trade papers, bringing out such magazines as Beauty Parade, Wink, Titter and Flirt...
Weatherwise, on the other hand, was a credit to the new society. Noel Coward's witty, fast-moving script was well-directed by Wink Neilson; and Barbara Bisco, Tina Cowley, Jim Rieger, Alison Mumford and Nick Strater all turned in well above average performances. Miss Mumford's transformation from a dignified British matron into a dog was the high point of the evening, and the quick exchange of patter among the members of her household never ceased to be amusing. It is fortunate that the Coward play closed the program, because it showed that the Leverett House group is capable...