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Married. Virginia Mayo, 26, wide-eyed blonde cinemactress (The Best Years of Our Lives); and Michael O'Shea, 41, brawny sideshow barker turned cinemactor (Jack London); she for the first time, he for the second; in Glendale, Calif...
...Karatz, a lawyer and former carnival barker, he was sentenced to one to five years in jail for conspiring to embezzle $55,000 from Chicago's Amalgamated Trust & Savings Bank...
...Rose prose, with a base of carnival-barker shrewdness and a pink topping of cotton-candy poetry, has caught the crowd like an inspired midway pitch. Only last week his column caught 17 more papers. By June 10 he expects to close a deal sewing up 3,000 U.S. weekly newspapers. That would put him thousands of readers up on Winchell himself. With no pretense to modesty, Columnist Rose predicts: "I'll be second only to the Bible...
...pound shot put--won by Frank (Y); 2, W. Jackson (H); 3. P. Garland (H). Distance--48 ft., 23/4 in. Javelin throw--won by D. Trimble (H); 2, Bouton (Y); 3, Gelb (Y). Distance--198 ft. Discus throw--won by Frank (Y.; 2, S. Felton (H); 3, Barker (Y); Distance...
Charging into the polluted chamber, they discovered the offending member--a mattress impregnated with a vile chemical concoction. Its owner, Walter Barker '49, suspects that he has been the victim of foul play. But investigators are still toying with the idea that some of the kiddies down the river may have misplaced some of their playthings...