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...with a similar victory over Martha Raye. Last week, to prove it was no accident, he beat Uncle Miltie again. Bald, horn-rimmed Phil Silvers, 43, has been near the show-business top for years (as in Broadway's hit musicals, High Button Shoes and Top Banana}, but until his TV Phil Silvers Show (Tues. 8 p.m., CBS), he had never quite scored a national success. He is still bitter about Hollywood, which kept him dangling for nearly a decade: "When I did work in pictures, I was always Blinky, the hero's best friend...
...that it was "probably too much." Said White House Aide Fred Seaton: "They ought to give them to the farmers to flail wheat." Remarked Sinclair Weeks (who came by car): "I'd just as soon ride in a boiler factory." "Gratitude & Appreciation." Despite the unsettling side of "Operation Banana" -a highly successful exercise in Government mobility nonetheless-Administration leaders last week settled down at Camp David for conferences with the convalescing President. As Secret Servicemen loitered watchfully in the saplings outside Laurel Lodge, Ike's aides sat inside around a green-baize table. One day the NSC conferred...
...worry so much about what the book says), and in 1903 she followed Holt's Care and Feeding of Infants to the letter, like all conscientious mothers. In those days solid foods weren't introduced until the child was nearly a year old, and bananas were considered indigestible. [He] had to wait until he was twelve years old before he was allowed his first half banana, and he almost expected to fall dead at the first taste of the forbidden fruit...
When the signal came from the airport, the royal drums thundered into life for the first time in two years. To Buganda's 1,300,000 people, the noise announced the return of their beloved Kabaka (King). Thousands of gallons of banana beer had been brewed, garlands fashioned, 16 arches constructed over the processional route with banners proclaiming: "He has triumphed." Stiffly upright in his immaculate grey suit, 31-year-old Edward William Frederick David Walugembe Luwangula Mutebi-Kabaka Mutesi II-bowed stiffly to the right and left from his Rolls-Royce convertible as it rolled triumphantly toward...
Flavored Milk. Denver's Universal Beverages Inc., will soon put on sale licorice, root beer and lime-flavored milk, following the test-marketing in Denver (more than 5,000 24-can cases sold since May 25) of its orange, strawberry and banana-flavored milk. Called Moo Gay, the drinks use a patented process that allows acidic flavors to be added to milk without curdling it, tastes vaguely like a liquid custard pudding. Price...