People: The Specialist's Eye

In Manhattan, Astrologer-Numerologist Florence Anne Jensen selected the year's "ten most fascinating horoscopes." Among them: General Dwight D. Eisenhower ("headed for a hectic spring and summer as Mars conjuncts his satellium of planets in Libra"); Ingrid Bergman ("Uranus in wide opposition to her Sun at birth ... causes her to be unconventional and overemotional in her dealings with men"); Dean Acheson ("who should exercise extreme caution during ... June, July, and August . . ."); John L Lewis, "who will fare extremely well until April, when Jupiter squares his Pluto-Mars conjunction in the earthy sign of Taurus. This will cause him to become overconfident and his future to be black."

Producer Nunnally Johnson (Three Came Home) was having a minor disagreement with his boss, 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, who thinks that Johnson ought to go to Africa to shoot a picture about Field Marshal Erwin Rommel. Visiting Manhattan, Johnson suggested that the picture could be made just as well in the U.S. Said he: "Patronize your neighborhood deserts."

Cosmopolitan magazine had a new solution to the problem of what to do about those short, blunt words Ernest Hemingway uses in his latest novel, Across the River and into the Trees, which the magazine is serializing. When Scribner published For Whom the Bell Tolls, the word obscenity was substituted for each bad Hemingway word—e.g., the memorable line, "I obscenity in the milk of your fathers." Cosmopolitan decided to use the word deletion in parentheses. Sample edited Hemingway line: "Every time you shoot now can be the last shot and no stupid (deletion) should be allowed to ruin it."

The chef at Manhattan's Sherry-Netherland hotel asked several gourmets to name their favorite after-theater supper dishes. Broadway Producer Gilbert Miller said he favored hot crabmeat in cream. Artist Salvador Dali liked tripe a la mode de Caen. Author Michael (The Green Hat) Arlen fancied hot Virginia ham topped with poached fresh peaches, the whole bathed in Madeira sauce.

Hattie Carnegie ran up a whole new set of uniforms for the WAC, Army Nurse Corps and Women's Medical Specialist Corps. The new military colors ranged from taupe to "a rosy beige"; the shiny brass buttons became "antiqued gold."

London's Savile Row tailors, zealous guardians of conservatism in men's fashions, were anything but happy. King George VI got two new tartan dinner jackets, was wearing them at informal parties. "His Majesty," the editor of Tailor & Cutter wrote, swallowing hard, "will bring dignity to the garment."

Sixty percent of U.S. farmers are unfit for their jobs because they hate their animals and hate the soil, Farmer-Author Louis Bromfield said in Kansas City. "A farmer to succeed needs to be part businessman, part specialist and part scientist." In Rome, Renzo Rossellini pooh-poohed reports printed by a Communist magazine that his brother, Director Roberto Rossellini, would renounce all his U.S. earnings from the picture Stromboli "for reasons of artistic dignity."

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