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...little after dawn, somewhere along Los Angeles' Sepulveda Boulevard, Lucille Ball used to meet her husband, Desi Arnaz. He would be going home after a night of leading his orchestra at Ciro's. She would be headed for a day's work at her movie studio. "We would pull off the road and talk for a few minutes," Lucille recalls. Then she adds: "That's a dull way to live, brother...
Dorothy Dandridge is the most strikingly good-looking Negro singer to come along since Lena Horne. Hollywood discovered that fact last year, when Dorothy sang in Sunset Boulevard nightclubs; then London got a look and quickly agreed. But "everyone" told her she still had to prove she could be a success in New York. Last week Singer Dandridge proved it emphatically. The management of Manhattan's La Vie en Rose could not supply tables enough for the customers who crowded...
...only went outdoors and underground. The same girls, reinforced in numbers, nightly patrolled the Champs Elysees and Place Pigalle and swarmed through the nightclubs. With no police regulation save for sporadic boulevard roundups, and no medical inspection, the venereal disease rate skyrocketed...
...Negros Occidental, second most populous province in the Philippines, everything ran on time: the buses, sugar production and the voters. The Huks were nonexistent; the roads at night were made as safe as Dewey Boulevard in Manila at high noon; sugar output, hard hit by war, had been quickly restored; and the voters knew exactly what to do -or else. Special police, armed with carbines, made sure there were no slipups...
Most of these fads and fancies were duly reported by Popular Mechanics, a lusty new magazine, whose editors ignored Einstein and took a dim view of the horseless carriage ("Not that the time will ever come when ... horses [will] entirely disappear from boulevard and town . . ."). They had more faith in lighter-than-air craft than they had in airplanes. They recorded the invention of perpetual motion machines and the impact of the telephone on the Turkish harem...