Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ready-to-Wear. In Memphis, a department-store detective thought Shopper Edward Earl Clements was too fat to be true, found under his bulging coat: four sports shirts, two raincoats, two bottles of cologne, a 2-lb. box of candy, several belts...
Blue-Eyed Hindu. Shirley MacLaine's success can be measured in more material terms. Her latest movie, Ask Any Girl (TIME, June 1), is climbing to the top of the box office totem pole largely because of her enchanting performance in a second-rate story. For her next picture, Can-Can, she will get $250,000, and she has just concluded another $250,000 deal with NBC for 15 TV specials-not bad for a girl who only a few years ago was a Broadway understudy at $110 a week...
Back home, the kid suddenly remembered the box trap he and his dad had set in the woods at Deep Springs. What if a rabbit got caught in it? Nobody would let him out and he would starve to death. The boy was so sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip...
FREE FOOD OFFER is being made by A. & P. for first time in Baltimore area to counter competitive grocery chains' trading stamps, may be extended into other highly competitive areas. A. & P. mails coupons for 2-lb. box of sugar worth 25?and pint of mayonnaise worth 35?to all listed in city directories...
...Plume de Ma Tante. A crew of madcap Frenchmen have built a better laugh-trap and theatergoers are beating a path to its box-office door...