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Svelte sarong-sisters, Dorothy Lamour and Debra Paget, portly Alfred Hitch-cock, and Harry (The River) Breen, with their retinues of press agents and movie moguls will proceed under police escorts to the Sumner statue, near the information booth...
...turnips cries / Cry not when his father dies / It is proof that he would rather / Have a turnip than his father"). Many were satire. Some rhyme scholars believe that the downfall of Sir Robert Walpole's ministry-popularly known as the "Robinocracy"-gave rise to "Who killed Cock Robin?", and that Georgie Porgie was really King George...
...from Calico. Eldest son of a Manchester calico merchant, he dutifully sold the "disgusting, smelly stuff" till he was past 40. After business hours, as drama reviewer for the Manchester Guardian, he soaked up theatrical lore, fashioned a springy, cock-of-the-walk style all his own. With a little prompting from J.A. (as he often called himself), London capitulated, gave him enough critical portfolios for an unofficial ministry-of-arts. Some of his posts: drama critic of the Sunday Times, film critic of the Tatter, book reviewer for the Daily Express, theater commentator for BBC. For a time...
...Curtains. The fighters command big-league prices. An untried young cock can be bought for as little as $50. But once his training muffs (chamois coverings to protect his spurs) have been removed and replaced by lethally pointed steel "gaffs" and razor-edged "slashers" the price rises fast. There are few Joe Louises in the cocking main, where a k.o. means curtains for the loser, and birds who survive five or more fights can bring...
...birdlike creature of 59 with darting black eyes, restless hands and a big head, "Chato" is a fighting cock whose hard work, smart financing, fast talk and seething energy have created Latin America's biggest news empire, and made him very nearly the most powerful man in Brazil. He first fireballed into Rio in 1917 as a brash young lawyer from the north with a driving urge to write for the newspapers. After a spectacular career as reporter and editor, he borrowed 3,000,000 cruzeiros in 1925 and bought his first newspaper, Rio's O Jornal. Generally...