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From the cluttered studio of Detroit's station WXYZ came rumblings that a fresh new talent had successfully invaded the troubled precincts of TV comedy: a youthful (31), crewcut, putty-faced buffoon named Soupy Sales (real: Milton Hines), whose daily kiddie show, Comics, has outpulled such network favorites as Arthur Godfrey Time and the Tennessee Ernie Ford Show to become the top-rated daytime show in the area. Late each night Soupy's on in Soupy's On with a cultivated zaniness and a woolly collection of characters that faintly echo the bite of bigger wits...
...Johnny Mathis; Columbia). One of the freshest young practitioners of the crewcut, scrubbed-voice style made popular by Pat Boone, Mathis quavers out his fast-selling ballad and all but soft-sells himself out of the lady's vision: "We may never meet again, but then...
...after a long Scottish holiday. The question, quickly debated by irritable newspaper readers: Assuming that Charles has a brow, is it high, middle or low? Noting that on his return "the prince's hair was even closer to his eyebrows than usual," London's more or less crewcut Daily Express pressed the attack with a monumental grouse: "Not one photograph of him has ever revealed his forehead!" The trail led to an elegant tonsorial emporium called Trumper's, which fortnightly dispatches a barber named Crisp to the palace to shear Charles (price of the haircut: 62?). What...
...days when most scratched out a lean living by herding (or stealing) sheep in the mountains by winter, hoeing a few acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again win a name as Rome's granary. Already the fund's crewcut, sports-jacketed young Italian engineers are saying that after the Flumendosa Valley is remade, underpopulated Sardinia may be able to absorb thousands of Italy's mainland unemployed...
Invited to testify (through a translator) before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, Michael Ivankov-Nikolov, 35, summed up his reaction to the Moscow propaganda statement: "From beginning to end this statement is a lie. There is not a drop of truth in it." Crewcut Viktor Tatarnikov, 20, was asked what he thought about staying on in the U.S. It put him, he replied, "in a very good and merry mood...