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During Brooklyn's first-game rally, Russ Meyer, Philly pitcher who was watching the game with a number of teammates from a box near the Boston dugout, became annoyed when a photographer insisted on taking his picture. Meyer first warned the camera man, then when another bulb went off he get in two blows before a spectator pulled...
...tired characters, Li'l Abner had inventively peopled the strip with hillbillies. Cried bighearted Vermin to his slaving assistant: "I'm proud of having created these [hillbilly] characters!! They'll make millions for me!! And if they do-I'll get you a new light bulb...
...among the most infamous of quack nostrums. Last week a salve got a respectable introduction to some distinguished physicians. At the Fifth International Cancer Congress in Paris, an earnest German scientist reported encouraging results in treating breast cancer with a salve containing a chemical derived from a common garden bulb...
Because nature often takes a bad picture, TV cameramen have learned a few tricks to titivate nature's frowzy face. Examples: strips of cloth dangled before a spotlight make a plausible flickering fire, and broken brown glass piled over a light bulb and sprinkled with titanium tetrachloride is a convincing pile of smoldering coals. Dry pablum, confetti or bleached corn flakes are used as a snow flurry; ice cream salt is hail, and raw white rice shaken from a colander looks enough like rain. Glycerine spray makes studio props appear...
...throwing its property on the market for sale, just locks up those plants, tosses their 15,000 highly skilled employees out in the cold, and sits tight. Can the Government force a sale? ... If G.E.'s production capacity is suddenly cut 50%, won't that create a bulb shortage, with retail prices jumping? . . . What the hell goes on here, anyway...