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...Howdy's platform: two Christmases and one schoolday a year; more pictures in history books; double sodas for a dime; plenty of movies...
...semi-retirement since last June, Radio Funnyman Fred Allen explained his reluctance to join the stampede to television. "Pioneers never make any money," said Allen. "Take Daniel Boone. He went through all those forests and didn't make a dime. Then the lumber companies came in and cleaned...
...like nothing so much as a Hollywood version of a Mississippi River gambler-a moody and monolithic male with a dark, Civil War mustache, a cold and acquisitive eye, and a brawler's shoulder-swinging walk. He affects dark glasses, wears a diamond ring as big as a dime on one rocklike fist, and on the flat Texas highways drives his royal blue Cadillac at 100 m.p.h., often with a whiskey bottle at his side. He likes to shoot craps at $1,000 a throw, and has a longshoreman's uninhibited propensity for barroom fights...
Peter of Yugoslavia, Austria's Archduke Franz Joseph, and Lady Franks, wife of the British ambassador. Wedding gifts included a set of Doulton china from Princess Elizabeth, and, for David, six suits and a complete dental rehabilitation job on both uppers & lowers, from his friend, five-&-dime heir Woolworth Donohue...
Thelma Jordon (Paramount), in telling the story of a fall guy, has a production polish as bright as a new dime but uses a plot that was minted long ago. Wendell Corey is a petulant assistant district attorney with an ever-loving wife (Joan Tetzel) and two movie-perfect children. But he goes on a binge and is exposed to the mature blandishments of Barbara Stanwyck, who gets him involved in a nasty murder. Corey is disbarred and Barbara dies in an auto accident over the convenient Hollywood cliff that has served as the execution block for many an offender...