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...picture is a fairly lively but less legitimate account of these not-so-legitimate characters. The prison backgrounds were realistically filmed at San Quentin, but the six convicts are now jailbirds of a more flamboyant feather. Among their activities, which have been broadly colored up for movie purposes: smuggling the wife of a fellow convict into prison in a crate marked "Highly Inflammable"; saving Psychologist Wilson (John Beal) from being used by a psychopathic killer as a jailbreak shield. To these extravagant exploits the picture adds others even more farfetched: the convicts operating a bookie joint called the Psychosomatic Bookkeeping...
...Meets Girl. What brings lovers in such droves to Bride & Groom is its promise to feather their nests. The newlyweds get a free, week-long honeymoon ("We pay for everything except liquor," says Nelson), the loan of a Pontiac, and a shower of presents ranging from vacuum cleaners and gas ranges to silverware and cigarette lighters. The ceremony itself is whipped through in something under four minutes. The rest of the 15-minute program is devoted to music by an organ, a harp and a sentimental baritone, a quick rehash of the boy-meets-girl details of the particular romance...
Abdullah shies away from travel: "If I go to America they will put me in an elevator and take me whishing up to the 750th floor and I'll be terrified. If I go to England they will put me in a feather bed and I will be asphyxiated...
...remainder of the Combined Charities funds, solicited in the early fall, were distributed as follows: Phillips Brooks House, $1,262.94; National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, $1,582.22; American Friends Service Committee, $1.164.77. Boston Red Feather, $909.65; Salzburg Seminar, $905.63; and World Student Service Fund...
...baking a birthday cake for their well-known neighbor Winston Churchill. For the Prime Minister's 77th birthday, they delivered to 10 Downing Street a monumental 80-lb. confection in the shape of a flat-topped bowler hat, heavily iced with chocolate and decorated with 200 fancy sugary feathers commemorating some of the honors and triumphs in the long Churchillian career.† Biggest feather of all bore the name Clementine, for his wife, who has shared his ups & downs for the past 43 years...