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...from five U.S. corporations and billed as "a birthday gift to the American people." The train carried a somewhat indiscriminate array of American artifacts: George Washington's copy of the Constitution, the agreement for the Louisiana Purchase, Will Rogers' lariat, Judy Garland's dress from the Wizard of Oz and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's size 16 basketball shoes...
...game chubby little boys can feel ridiculous playing but that the superstar plays with confidence, sometimes with Billie Jean King or Jimmy Connors. In England he lives in the affluent suburb of Virginia Water. His house is a lively jumble. The huge boots he wore as the Pinball Wizard in the movie Tommy stand near a Picasso. Two stuffed leopards are a leap away from three Rembrandt etchings. Says Elton: "All I really crave now is an original Toulouse-Lautrec or a Hieronymus Bosch...
...belch, a yawn and a groan, which [is officially transcribed] as a 'cheer,' must have been hard put to know what it signified." Coming through clearly, however, was a cry of "Send him to Europe!" when Labor M.P. Andrew Faulds hailed Wilson as a "wily old wizard" for his recent success in the EEC referendum...
Among the personalities lately subjected to runaway inflation, none is more pathetic than Judy Garland. Along the parabola that describes her career, Garland made 37 films. Only a handful are memorable and only one, The Wizard of Oz, is a classic. But she gave more than 100 concerts and broadcasts that brought millions of listeners in on her waif length. Eventually her performances also exhibited-as at a sideshow-a manic-depressive grotesque who shrilled off-key and forgot once familiar lyrics. In the last years she attracted throngs of gay and melancholy Garland freaks whose adulation was a form...
...David Dahl and Barry Kehoe (Mason/Charter; $9.95), explores Grand Rapids, Minn., and Lancaster, Calif., for fragments of the true Judy. The authors emerge with gossip about Frances Gumm, whose vaudeville father was a homosexual and whose mother sought vicarious recognition in her child star. For Dahl and Kehoe The Wizard of Oz is cinéma à clef; the Dorothy who sang Over the Rainbow was the actress herself. "Frances never stopped trying to get home," they burble in a style that Rona Barrett might envy. Young Judy covers only the childhood of Garland's 47-year-long life...