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They cost only a nickel or a dime, but for a while they transferred the nation's publishing capital to the small town of Girard, Kans. and made a capitalist-by-mistake of a Philadelphia bookbinder's son; see PRESS, Little Blue Books...
Detroit Free Press Reporter James Robinson's regular job is covering the state legislature in Lansing. But one day last March, Robinson was pulled off his beat to check an anonymous tip that an innocent man was behind prison bars. Such tips are a dime a dozen in any newsroom; legislative Reporter Robinson got the assignment mainly because his city editor thought it would provide a welcome break from routine...
...young sax maniac from Milwaukee who has come to Manhattan to blow the town down-he stands for Innocence. The heroine (Debbie Reynolds) is a hoofer who expected to wrap show business around her pretty little figure, but after two years of tryouts is still suckering sailors in a dime-a-dance hall-she stands for Experience. And the villain of the piece is the great big city, a sort of cold-water Sodom populated by pimps, prostitutes, land pirates, tourist trappers, gay young switchblades, softheaded bartenders and hard-nosed landlords...
...buses and vending machines made it clear that Yankee coins could go home. Professional coin runners, who used to buy $100 of U.S. silver at border cities with $95-$97 in Canadian currency and then truck it legally across the border, were trying other ways to make a fast dime. The royal mint in Ottawa worked overtime to make enough coins for Canada's needs, for the volume of circulating U.S. coins was down by nearly...
...lagniappe. a Fiat, a chinchilla stole, and a week in Las Vegas were auctioned off. Benny bid $200 for the privilege of hearing himself accompany George Burns. Burns upped the bid to $500, on the condition that Benny keep silent. He played anyway, and someone threw a dime at him. Sinatra kicked ice cubes at the audience and got into a staring match with John Wayne. The gaiety, which could hardly have been surpassed at a Forty & Eight Fun Night, continued till...