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When a man's hair begins to drop out and his step grows heavy and the 20-year mortgage on his house is half paid-it is then that he feels romance burning in his veins. He may yearn to run off to the Galapagos Islands and rest beneath the palms with the local Liat (native girl in South Pacific), but usually he just starts wearing California sport shirts and loafers. John R. Winter Jr., 40, of Detroit, was a different sort. He went to the Arthur Murray Studio on Livernois Avenue...
...like it." Grand in scope, minute in documentation (829 pages), Nemesis of Power may not get the U.S. readers it deserves, but it will hold those it gets in a vise of armchair fascination. It is rich in characters and scenes that a novelist might envy and an actor yearn to play. And as the field-grey shadows of the Reichswehr's erstwhile leaders goose-step across the pages of Nemesis of Power, they may well be passing in review on the parade ground of posterity's judgment...
...famed New York Producer Charles Frohman became Maude's mentor and manager. He helped create the shy, veiled creature whose personal life was an enigma. Frohman's order: "You are not to be interviewed. You are not to be quoted . . . People will wonder at you, yearn for the details of your private life . . . Let them. It will only spur their interest and desire...
When Martha Rountree beckons, big people in Washington come arunning. As mistress of ceremonies of the television show Meet the Press, Florida-born, belle-like Martha controls a precious segment of Sunday evening air for which politicians yearn as the hart panteth after the water-brooks. Last week Martha had a party, the gaudiest since Marie Antoinette opened at the Trianon, or at least since the night when a foreign ingredient got into Mrs. Murphy's chowder...
Most of Li's men live in mud and straw huts, raise rice and vegetables on tiny hillside farms. Some have settled down with Burmese girls but most still yearn for their families in Yunnan, and some secretly visit their kinfolk from time to time. A bold attempt last year to move large numbers of their dependents from Red Yunnan ended in bloody failure: the Communists seized 800 oldsters and children, and none has been heard of since...