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...well as the next. With any luck, a girl will get a glimpse of the real thing, even perhaps be graced by a word or two, delivered over her head, but relating to it: "Not bad," he will say to the Mr. Ralph or Mr. Daniel or Miss Farr in charge. Or, in a weary voice, "Oh, dear...
...organize a trade union for prostitutes? The idea seemed stunning in 1907, when trade-unionism was new and the oldest profession still flourishing. Actress Florence Farr got to wondering what sort of person would be best suited to run such an organization, and she put the question to just the right man: Playwright George Bernard Shaw, who himself had exhibited a fatherly concern for the girls in Mrs. Warren's Profession. Well, mused Shaw in his reply, "the project seems pretty Utopian." For one thing, he wrote, the people engaged in the trade "are the loudest detractors...
...Dual-Ghia is sabotaged by a garage mechanic (Cliff Osmond) and a piano teacher (Ray Walston) who want to peddle their songs. Martin's only interest is broads ("If I skip one night, I wake up with such a headache"). Unwilling to peddle his own wife (Felicia Farr) along with his tunes, Walston drives her away and brings home a substitute, Kim Novak, who heads the navel armada at a local juke joint known as the Belly Button. Through a series of vinsavory miscalculations, punctuated by a parrot that squawks "Bang! Bang!" all too frequently, Martin gets the wife...
...19th century British painting. Now it looks as though the younger Mellon will build another public gallery in Washington for his 500-odd works of art, which are now hung in Mellon's various homes except when the paintings go on tour. Last week he appointed Dennis Farr, 35, a curator of London's Tate Gallery, to plan the project...
That sounds reasonable enough, and MacGregor is still favored to win reelection, but there is still a big "but." One of MacGregor's political foes, State D.F.L. Chairman George Farr, expresses it well. "MacGregor is a good, articulate man, an exceptional campaigner," says Farr. "But the question is: How deep does Goldwater...