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...queen of queens, the 21-year-old daughter of a dental technician, had no hifalutin ideas for the future. While her measurements (height 5 ft. 7 in., weight 130 lbs., bust 35 in.) flashed across the land and the usual flood of show-business offers poured in, she an nounced that she planned to take the $5,000 scholarship and use it to finish her studies at Memphis State College. Hollywood was definitely out, she said. Already engaged to a medical school student, she explained: "I'm only interested in one contract - the marriage contract...
Staring across Zaslavsky's desk is a plaster bust of Lenin, molded in sternest mien. Zaslavsky remembers - and well -that even before Lenin had a political party he founded a newspaper to promote revolution, assigned its correspondents...
Elliott, Of Course. First off there was tall, heavy-lidded, 41-year-old Howard Hughes, who very nearly killed himself recently in his own experimental plane, and who, as producer of The Outlaw, made the bust of Jane Russell famous from coast to coast. Then there was a sleek and portly Hughes pressagent and talent scout named Johnny Meyer. Meyer, it appeared, had been a great spender of Hughes's money. And whom had he entertained? None other than Interior Secretary Julius A. ("Cap") Krug, for one. According to the amazingly detailed Meyer expense sheets which the committee...
...Sphinx of Springfield," cried Dr. Tansill, wagging a lean finger in the general direction of a bust of Lincoln (which stared sadly south), played "fast and loose" with Southerners "in order to trick them into a bombardment of that famous Fort [Sumter]." He had blocked all Southern conciliation attempts, had succeeded in starting the War Between the States and then laying the blame on the South. But, sputtered Dr. Tansill, the South should not even now think of its "struggle for freedom" as a "lost cause." "The glorious Confederate flag . . . Belleau Wood . . . Patton's crusaders . . , never be furled...
...Britain? Last week, the cables of the Associated Press were humming with the news. They play hink pink. How? Well, one Briton says to another, "Hink pink, convict?" If the other is quick on the trigger, he answers smartly: "Bad lad!" "Hink pink, sculpture," might draw the reply: "Bust trust." For advanced players the game can run into two syllables. Samples: "Hinky pinky, Palestine." Answer: "Skittish British." Possible, but inadvisable except for postgraduates, is the three-syllable challenge: "Hinkitty pinkitty, no more Molotov." The answer would, of course, be: "Bevinly Heavenly...