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...more than 6,000,000 cars. There was good reason for his optimism. Ward's Automotive Reports said last week that September new-car sales "are exceeding all expectations." They are racing 10% ahead of last month and nearly 20% ahead of September 1956. Detroit took the cue, promptly stepped up production schedules...
Although he said that he was not recommending that people be forbidden to smoke cigarettes, he suggested that the tobacco industry committee "take a cue from the experience of the liquor industry after Prohibition and at least counsel moderation in smoking...
Lacking a royal family to twitter about, Washington society made do last week by hoking up a heart flutter between Mrs. Alben Berkley, 45, widow of the onetime Vice President, and cue-bald Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn, 75. Bachelor (since a brief 1927 marriage) Rayburn, who squired the lady to Senator Lyndon Johnson's 49th birthday party last week, was not talking, but Jane Barkley was: "For heaven's sake! I enjoy his company immensely, and that's that...
...previous shows, Paar complained on camera about cue mix-ups, improper offstage signals and placement of cameras. Casting a withering glance at a cameraman whose lenses were not quite up to Paar, he smirked: "I have no makeup on my belt buckle tonight." And when one show became a shambles, he ad-libbed: "Friends, aren't you glad you tuned in; we've been rehearsing for nine minutes." Some of Paar's gentle mockery was a replay of old summer material, e.g., his radio-announcer bloopers ("We have just the furniture to seat your nudes"), and reliable...
...keeping. Parading and posing with an even more voluptuous silhouette than most 1911 showgirls had, Marilyn is alternately spirited and lethargic. Especially in her tussling with Olivier, she seems more directed by him than acting with him-as if by wiggling his off-camera ear he gives her the cue to giggle. Conversely, Olivier, almost embarrassed by being an on-camera Svengali. often appears to stoop gallantly to make his protégée as towering as he is. The highlights of any such Graustarkian foolishness usually, though strangely, come when Graustark momentarily seems real. Olivier does the trick...