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...Quiet Surrender. The fun was over on Goldie's twelfth day loose. Swooping down to feast on a rabbit planted by his pursuers, he let himself be quietly seized by the legs and returned to his cage, where his mate Regina awaited. "It's good to have him back," said a zoo official. "He is used to people and good square meals." Many a Londoner would take wistful exception. As the Daily Mail put it, Goldie "is the flying symbol of all men lost in urban civilization." Added the Daily Telegraph's editorial page: "Perhaps...
...fashion's delight and men's despair, women and foundation garments have been inseparable for years. Feast or famine, thick or thin (mostly thick) they have clung to each other, lending ironclad support here (with a corset), whaleboned comfort there (with a waist cincher), out-and-out camouflage (with a wire-braided bustle or a foam-rubber bust) as far as the eye could see. Trouble was, the eye could never see far enough to know for sure where the padding left off and the girl began. Now, at long last, it is all quite clear. Thanks...
MARRIAGE-ITALIAN STYLE. Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni pour all their charm into a hilarious old tearjerker about a home-loving harlot who parlays a few crumbs of love into a wedding feast...
...what turned out to be a hanging jury: the New York reviewers. As Herald Tribune Columnist Dick Schaap summed up the first-night verdict: "Hitler got better notices in World War II." There was no second night, and Kelly bombed out, $650,000 in the red. In the feast-or-famine history of Broadway, there has never been a shorter run for the money...
Died. Frank Mozley Stevens, 84, president of Harry M. Stevens Inc., the nation's greatest purveyor of food to sports fans, who expanded his father's hot-dog concessions into a $20 million annual feast at 45 tracks including the caviar and peach Melbas served at such fancy beaneries as the Diamond Club at the New York Mets' Shea Stadium and a soon-to-open splendor at Florida's Hialeah race track; after a long illness; in Manhattan...