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...same ones again and again, while their parents gradually lost their minds. Then last season adults began to notice something called Rocky and His Friends, which was new and actually amusing. Rocky, a squirrel, was uncute enough, but it was one of his friends that particularly attracted attention-a blanket-eared, wall eyed, stupid-looking, oafish moose. This moose-whose mother in a flash of lyricism had named him Bullwinkle-made it so big with the big people that he now has his own show in prime evening time...
...Bydgoszcz. At night, tenting a blanket over his head to hide his flash light beam from the Valley Forge duty officer, Salinger (by now called Jerry) had written his first short stories. But if he told his family that he intended to be an author, he did not convince Papa Sol. In 1937, after Jerry spent a few unproductive weeks at New York University, the two Salingers set out for Vienna. "I was supposed to apprentice myself to the Polish ham business," Salinger wrote in a 1944 issue of Story Magazine. "They finally dragged me off to Bydgoszcz...
...Chevy II. Only slightly larger than a compact, the Chevy II is intended to compete not with Ford's intermediate Fairlane. which is roughly the size of a 1949 sedan, but with Ford's best-selling Falcon compact. In a market where companies almost invariably try to blanket their competitors' offerings, this leaves a gap in Chevy's line, but Chevrolet General Manager Edward Cole defends his strategy by saying that the cheapest big Chevy, the Biscayne. will be competition enough for the Fairlane. Though a lower, horizontally barred grille and a squared-off rear deck...
...Havana, Castro serenely told a celebrating audience that he would not return the plane unless the U.S. returns "all planes that were stolen from Cuba" or are "hijacked from here" in the future -a blanket description covering the ten Cuban planes seized in the U.S. by court order after the Cuban government failed to pay a Miami advertising firm its $429,000 bill for plugging Cuban tourism. He ignored one fact: 14 planes hijacked by Cuban defectors had been promptly returned to Cuba after arrival...
Your Virgil Partch cartoon amused me greatly, because it is not so far from the truth. I watched my mother hook up her electric blanket to the overhead light in one of the permanent tents at Yosemite National Park last summer with great howls of derision, and found at 3 a.m. that the extra warmth was quite welcome...