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...Reilly?" said the sage of the age as he Coombs his Scully scarching for a proper rejoinder. "Just to show you how I Felt. I will pick it straight as Lazzaro because we can't Moffie this one. It will be no Halliday but by DeFilipo the coin it will be Rt Ro Diverto and Harvard 14 Holy Cross...
Hepcat Hurdle. On the West Coast, some jukebox operators upped their price to 10? a record. In San Francisco, Jukebox King Jack Ehrlich reported some resistance to dime-a-record, three-for-a-quarter players. But in San Jose the new dime jukeboxes paid for their coin-box alterations in a week, showed a 50% increase in gross take...
Jukebox Genius. At a Manhattan coin-machine show, exhibitors proudly demonstrated a mechanical "Information Please," patterned after a Navy wartime training device. For a nickel, the machine propounds five questions on a printed screen from a selection of 8,000, gives the player a choice of answers to each question. The player selects one by punching a button and is graded by the machine...
...coin was worth 5?. But to the ordinary German, still living under strict wage and price controls, 50 pfennig is still 50 pfennig. The woman bent down, and in the darkness groped for the lost coin. She could not find it. The conductor could not find it either. Then a Polish soldier came over to help out with a match. But the match burned down before they found the coin. The soldier muttered, then fished a wad of German bills out of his pocket. He took a large, 20-mark note ($2), lit it, found the 50-pfennig piece...
...Brasher Doubloon (20th Century-Fox) is a rare coin that has been stolen from a dreary Pasadena mansion. Raymond Chandler's famed private detective Philip Marlowe, this time played by George Montgomery,* is hired to recover it. In no time at all, the simple-looking case has branched out like a cuttlefish. The bulldoggish old dowager (Florence Bates) who hired Marlowe unaccountably fires him. He stays on for the sake of her frightened secretary (Nancy Guild), who can't bear to be touched by a man but wants to get over her peculiarity. The detective also tangles with...