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...telephone jags that leave her hoarse and often keep her awake until 4 a.m. (Her clients, who need the money, don't mind if she wakes them.) In her file of 5,000 aspiring actors, Sally can find almost any type that walks and a few that crawl-and if she can't turn up a fake McCoy, she goes out and finds a real...
Thurs., April 7 Revlon Revue (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Co medians Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding lead a pub crawl through Manhattan. Ob served en route: Singers Peggy Lee and Felicia Sanders, Dancer Jose Greco...
...first Labor Prime Minister in 1904, 20 years before Britain. Labor unions acquired a major voice in government and a death grip on the economy. The worst sin in the Australian calendar was scabbing, and the prevailing work pace was one that G.I.s came to call "the Australian crawl...
Along with making a reader's skin crawl, Dahl hands out primer instruction in such arts as beekeeping, the poaching of pheasants, Chippendale antiques, and the transmigration of souls. British-born Roald (rhymes with you-all) Dahl is interested in all these matters as well as in good wine, roses and birds (he owns 100 parakeets). Thin, balding and scholarly looking, he is as inconspicuous as one of his own characters. But his work closely resembles that of another British expert in horror, Saki, particularly in casual bloodthirstiness and ghoulish wit, and he very nearly equals Saki in fiendish...
...spill. Scribbling furiously, Buchanan took it all down, airmailed home the fugitive's own account of his escape, which was promptly copyrighted by the Herald and splashed all over Page One. It made vivid reading: the ordeal ("I didn't know which was worse, the horrible crawl across the yard or the swamps, the muck and the rocks"), the ride to Havana in a farmer's truck, the friend there who supplied fresh clothing, the hideout at the St. Johns...