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...circulation man, Sherry was interested in (and depressed by) what appears to be an old Indian custom. Each newsstand dealer has a "readers' circle" of customers who await their turns to rent a copy of TIME or LIFE International for half the newsstand price...
...gosh!" moaned Secretary of State Dean Acheson's tailor. "The Secretary has never selected a suit louder than a mild-toned plaid. He's very discriminating, and such a gentleman ... a perfect size 42." But the Custom Tailors' Guild found the Secretary guilty of "sometimes overdressing," replaced him on their list of ten best-dressed men with General Dwight D. Eisenhower. Other winners: Bandleader Sammy Kaye, Dance Instructor Arthur Murray, Paper Magnate Harry E. Gould, radio M.C. Ralph Edwards...
Dear Wife (Paramount). The movie sequel is an old Hollywood custom designed to repeat a success by imitating it. More often, as with this pale wraith of 1947's Dear Ruth, it succeeds only in running a good thing into the ground. With the same principals playing for farce in the same suburban setting, Dear Wife sadly lacks a script to measure up to the original...
...visit was disillusioning. When Ernenek followed the old Eskimo custom of rummaging through his hosts' baggage somebody rapped him sharply across the knuckles. Then somebody else offered him whisky, a drink that made him miserably hot, so he decided that white men were an unfriendly lot at best. Turning his back on the explorers, he built an igloo nearby and settled down with his family for a sleep-only to be awakened shortly afterward by an uninvited anthropologist. While the "lemming-faced" white intruder busily sketched everything in sight, hospitable Ernenek brought out his choicest delicacy, "a thoroughly chewed...
...from them." Tied down in one spot for a year by Asiak's mother, who was too old to travel and whose teeth, "used down to the gums, were incapable of softening hides any longer," Ernenek and Asiak unhesitatingly decided to follow their tribe's time-honored custom of euthanasia; they took her for a one-way ride, left her out on the frozen...