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Ineligible to succeed himself for a third term, Oregon's popular Governor Tom McCall, 60, was cautious about the latest announced contender for his office. "She has all her marbles," he acknowledged. As for the lady chasing the Republican gubernatorial nomination this year—Mrs. Dorothy Lawson McCall, 85—she promised support for most of her son's record. She has assured him that she will continue his innovative environmental programs but will avoid "putting my foot in my mouth"—a reference to the Governor's outspokenness. McCall said that any discouragement from him "would only spur her on," and sat back to watch the other candidates struggle with the motherhood issue. As for Mrs. McCall, she is campaigning at her own pace. When a reporter arrived at her Portland home for an interview, he was sent away. The candidate was taking a bath.
In the pseudotough tones of the neorealist, Novelist Norman Mailer, 51, has always claimed he writes only for cash.
Lately he has been making some nice change. In the past five years, the prolific Mailer has juggled publishing contracts to earn around $250,000 a year. Another $500,000 is expected to come in from his recent book Marilyn. Still, it only just supports a $200,000-a-year life-style that is shaped by five marriages and seven children. Last week Wheeler-Dealer Mailer brought off the coup of his career: a record $1 million from Little Brown for a proposed saga about "a family from ancient history to future history" which will end aboard a spaceship. Swearing off such distractions as TV appearances and journalistic ephemera, Mailer has retired to his Stockbridge, Mass., house to write the novel over the next few years. Commenting on the largest known sum paid for a work of fiction, New York Publisher Roger Straus said: "It's crazy, man."
As befits a more than 200-year-old gentleman's dining and theatrical club that has numbered Presidents including John Adams and John Kennedy among its members, Harvard's Hasty Pudding is proudly behind the times. The annual high spot, a transvestite revue replete with high-kicking chorus boys, is garnished with a "Hasty Pudding Woman-of-the-Year Award." This year the honors went to Faye Dunaway, 33, hailed as "the most explosive package of beautiful talent to have hit the stage and screen in years." Faye, whose only sizable screen detonation occurred in 1967 when she starred in Bonnie and Clyde, enjoyed the Cambridge ceremonies: a Faye Dunaway look-alike contest, won by a platinum-wigged male student, and a couple of numbers from this year's revue, Keep Your Pantheon. Later she gushed: "These Harvard guys are wonderful, and they play it straight."