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Groucho Marx could not resist cracking back. Said Groucho: "Television is cleaner than most American parlors. Sex was doing pretty well long before television was invented...
Papers in the chain have been changing their makeup, dumping the old circus & gingerbread style that was a Hearst trademark. In its place have come cleaner headline type, fewer screaming bannerlines and a more up-to-date, readable layout. Gigantic cartoons and other boiler plate that once poured out of Hearst headquarters are now passed up by editors whenever they will, and even such well-entrenched Hearst columnists as Westbrook Pegler and George Sokolsky may be dropped or trimmed as editors desire...
...rubber paint with which car owners can make their own "white wall" tires in 20 minutes was put on the market by Chicago's Lowenthal Manufacturing Co.The manufacturer says the white walls will last as long as the tires. The do-it-yourself kit contains one bottle of cleaner to prepare the tire surface and enough liquid rubber to paint five tires. Cost...
...plan was to rob the apartment on the first visit, but Guidice was scared of the butler. "I froze," he explained with the air of a peasant who had seen his king. "I just froze up there." On their "mistaken" package they left the label of a real dry cleaner for whom Paladino used to work, and that was their undoing. Employees of the cleaning establishment told police that the not-so-brainy Paladino had recently been asking searching questions about the Parnis apartment...
...explanation. Britain is short of labor: nothing the nationalized coal industry has done (e.g., higher wages, social security) can induce more Britons to work in the pits. Full employment is partly to blame: coal miners' sons don't want to work underground when there are safer, cleaner jobs above...