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...awakened every single nerve . . ."), but it is pallid stuff compared with the rape, incest, flagellation and other veneries of Peyton Place and Return to Peyton Place. If Author Metalious continues such deception, her readers will all go back to Jack Woodford, the U.S.'s leading plain-wrapper author (Dangerous Love, Illicit...
...reality, the new edition is only a four-page wrapper for the regular issue. But Editor Jackson spoke bravely of the future: "A modest beginning to a restoration of the larger coverage and service and, we hope, the circulation we once had." Even so, Jackson went right on beseeching partyliners for alms to pay the Worker's debts of about $70,000. For the Worker, prosperity still seems permanently around the corner...
...train to Westport (so goes the story), a junior advertising executive was eagerly reading a book in a plain wrapper. The train hit a New Haven bump, the book fell to the floor, and the title was revealed for all to see: The Status Seekers. By the rules of status seeking, it was a serious goof: no smart social climber wants to be caught showing too much interest in the book, since anyone in secure social status should be above any concern with the restless and near-universal scramble for position that Author Vance (The Hidden Persuaders) Packard undertakes...
Jobs in the theater were hard to come by when Harry Belafonte left dramatic school in 1948. He took a job as a messenger and package wrapper in the garment district; nights he used to drop in at a Broadway jazz cellar known as the Royal Roost. He learned a few songs-Star Dust, Blue Moon, Pennies from Heaven-and landed a job. He made some recordings, even composed a quavering ballad titled Lean on Me ("You in your high ivory tower/ Drunk with the sense of your power/ I adore you/ Do I bore you? Come, come...
...this season: one homey fracas in which mom knows best, another in which grandpa takes over the Socratic chores. ¶Donna Reed (ABC, Wed., 9-9:30 p.m.), mother of two, wife of a doctor, is an inoffensive archetype of the mythical figure whose chuckleheadedness is just a cheery wrapper around an infallible intuitive wisdom. In time for the final embrace, she usually squashes at least half a dozen domestic crises (mostly of her own making) and straightens out whatever is troubling the neighbors. But her forte is in canny diagnosis of ailments that have baffled her doctor hubby...