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First songwriter: "You know, the catchiest little song has been running through my head. It goes like this. Dum dum dah dah, doo dah doo dum dum, doe dah dah dah dab. I think I'll call it "Squash for Sale...
When a young woman crashed her Mercury convertible smack-dab into his black limousine on Long Island's Grand Central Parkway, Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch, 80, calmly surveyed the wreckage, told her: "I hope your parents won't be too severe. Just tell them it was the other guy's fault...
...sometimes words don't need music, nor does music need all the stops pulled out. Too often in Stars a wave of honest feeling brings a backwash of sentimentality; too often the show feels that the more it dots its i's, the more the audience will dab at theirs...
...Girl In the Painting (Rank; Universal-International) begins with a mere dab of an idea. A British major (Guy Rolfe), dropping in at a London exhibition of wartime paintings, falls in love with a portrait of "Hildegard" (Mai Zetterling), a beautiful displaced blonde, and determines to find her. In the course of ransacking D.P. camps in occupied Germany, he meets not only Hildegard but a sinister, disguised SS general...
...Bebe came out foursquare against false bosoms: "I don't wear them [myself] and I never will. A girl must be her very own self. Palsies aren't honest." The U.S. beauty (bust 37, hips 36) also took a swipe at the "French-type" bathing suit: "A dab here, and a bit right down here and back there." Said she righteously: "So much unrestrained nudity has a bad moral effect on men, as well as people generally...