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Producer Marty Ransohoff, 35, likes B.O. plenty. His Beverly Hillbillies is a smash. But Marty's first two films, Boys' Night Out and The Wheeler Dealers, didn't snag quite as much customer coin as he had hoped. So in The Americanization of Emily he decided to trot in three nudes, tagged Broads 1, 2 and 3 in the script. And when the Motion Picture Association Production Code Administration refused to take the broad view and ordered some snipping Marty sounded arty, almost. "The code," he huffed to a reporter, "should be more mature and reflect modern...
...guard assigned to collect nickels from parking meters under a contract with the city. Tipped more than a month ago that most of Thomas' take was winding up in his own pocket, the Sentinel called in the police. Together they worked out their plan for trapping the coin pilferer with Conklin's camera. Confronted with graphic evidence of his guilt, Thomas confessed stealing nearly $500 in nickels in eight weeks. Said Photographic Thief Catcher Conklin: "I feel kind of sorry for the guy. But like they say, I guess crime doesn...
...Canon Kir is a Gallic equivalent of the late Fiorello La Guardia-a Napoleon-sized (5 ft. 3 in.) "autocrat" with no inhibitions. In his normal dress of beret, black cassock and high-laced shoes, Kir occasionally descends on the gendarmé directing traffic at Dijon's Coin du Miroir, takes over, creates monumental traffic tie-ups. At the inauguration of a new public school gymnasium, Kir, cassock and all, shinnied up five feet of rope to answer a photographer's challenge. When he found himself locked out of his apartment, Kir stalked back to a firehouse, borrowed...
Before Johnson accepted the vice-Presidency, students of the Constitution had often criticized the parties for nominating nonentities for the office. Now they saw the other side of the coin; a man of Presidential qualities found his time wasted on errand-boy duties that others could as easily have performed...
Some Nebraskans are doing just that. A man and wife who bought $18,000 worth of equipment early this year to start a coin-operated laundry have stopped paying the installments and are trying to get back their $500 down payment. State Senator Terry Carpenter, remembered for proposing an imaginary "Joe Smith" for the Republican vice-presidential nomination in 1956, is suing to recover $1,300 he paid down on $7,000 worth of cash registers...