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...Your Sorrow Unmasked." Born 44 years ago as Amos Joseph Alphonsus Jacobs, Danny Thomas was the fifth of ten children of a Lebanese immigrant laborer who, back in Toledo, often sold candy to make ends meet. Appropriately, Danny's first taste of show business was as a candy butcher in a burlesque house. Before long, he was onstage, hamming it up in radio and nightclubs. In 1936 he married a Detroit radio singer named Rosemarie Mantell, today has three children...
...country," Nathan's retort killed the projected investigation as cold as any Broadway turkey. Said he: "Dramatic criticism has made over the American drama from mushklatsch. It is necessary for dramatic criticism to show no mercy toward what still persists of the ignorant older order and to butcher it to death as quickly as possible...
...takes a day, a week or a year!" cried Stompanato. "I'll cut you up. I'll stomp you, and if I can't do it myself, I'll find someone who can." Frightened Cheryl went to the kitchen, picked up a 10-in. butcher knife, went to the bedroom. "You don't have to take that, Mamma," she said, and plunged the knife into Stompanato. He crumpled, fell dead on Lana's pink carpet at the foot of Lana's commodious...
...Princess Margaret, though having slipped off the current best-dressed list (TIME, Jan. 13), showed signs of trying for a best-tressed roster. Her latest hairdo, displayed as she sat in her limousine at London's Liverpool Street Station, features middle-parted bangs, neatly accented by a red butcher-boy beret...
...Wolsey's career, makes excellent reading on three counts: it evokes the vast historic tide that submerged the Middle Ages in the frothy waters of the Renaissance; it tells a whodunit about who would rule England's roost; and it is a success story of a butcher's son who rose to highest honors in his country and his church only to fall in the end. Though Biographer Ferguson (a Reader's Digest editor) takes a cool view of theological matters, the book always conveys the rising sense of crisis in which Canterbury split from Rome...