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...such names as Brewster, Carter and Fairfax. The biggest mobster of them all (Carroll O'Connor) is downright refined. Arriving at his hideout, he grumbles that the shrubbery needs watering and the swimming pool is too cold, then expresses horror at Marvin's demand for the missing dough. "We don't handle actual cash," he gasps. "I've only got about...
...projects, he proved that old neighborhoods can be rehabilitated, thus helping to end the indiscriminate razing that had hitherto prevailed. He applied his New Haven techniques to the "new Boston," is now running for the mayoralty. Urban renewal would work better, says Logue, if the Federal Government gave "more dough, less advice." Logue would also decentralize city government so that neighborhoods could make many local decisions...
...roll singers and become instant celebrities. Among them is Debbie Watson (TV's Tammy), a Go-Go bird in a gilded cage who busts loose and tries to make her way to the top of the charts. Should she decide that happiness is just a thing called dough? Or should she step down into the role of mousewife to her baritone boy friend (Gil Peterson)? Eventually, as is proper in this kind of Hollywood hokum, she does both. But before the final fadeout she is preached at and screeched at by Roddy McDowall as her manager, Phil Harris...
...Doughboy Dough...
When the bids were opened July 29, all but LIFE and Look were quickly eliminated. Congdon admitted that at one point "LIFE did offer the most dough," but LIFE was unwilling to meet Congdon's insistence that Manchester should have complete control over the serialization-down to headlines and captions. LIFE ultimately went to $600,000; Look got it for $665,000, and gave Manchester considerable control. LIFE offered him only what it has given to authors from Winston Churchill to Arthur Schlesinger Jr.: the right to recommend changes and approve the final excerpts. As for the money, Manchester...