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...defend their clients' stock in trade: "I am not built for any kind of boy's fashions, so why should I wear them?" said Mrs. Joe DiMaggio. TV's robustious Dagmar went on record: "Frankly, honey, the instrument hasn't been made that can flatten me out." Growled Marlon Brando ungallantly: "Emphasizing women's hips is like putting falsies...
This hopped-up pace, which gives him an income of about $150,000 a year, would flatten many a man more robust than 135-lb, O'Connor. But, except for a tendency to colds, Donald seems to thrive on it. In addition to becoming a TV fixture, he has signed contracts with Fox, Paramount and Universal-International to do six movies during the next two years (one of them: White Christmas, in which he will co-star with Bing Crosby and Rosemary Clooney). Says Donald with satisfaction: "It's great, being busy. After you spend 26 years entertaining...
Good Gripper. B. F. Goodrich Co. brought out a new tread design on its puncture-sealing, tubeless tire. The tread has more than 10,000 tiny blocks of rubber (16 to the inch), approximately a quarter of an inch deep. When the brakes are applied, the blocks flatten out, giving the tires more traction. On icy pavements, said Goodrich, the tires will stop a car 15 to 30% faster than conventional tires...
Moviedom has given the eternal triangle a steady beating for the past fifty years, but it still has some shape left. A few more productions like "Let's Make It Legal" will flatten it for good...
...British press, glumly conditioned to watching U.S. boxers flatten Britain's best, crowed with delight. Bragged the Daily Mirror: "Turpin became world champion without any of the hokum that Americans have used to bedazzle and bamboozle their opponents before the fight." London's anti-American, middlebrow New Statesman and Nation felt a primitive thrill: "The local boy from Leamington Spa became the giant-killer and we all felt bigger and better in consequence . . . Europe had risen from the gutter and thrashed the Prince of the Dollar Empire ... Morale rises ... Even the Government becomes our Government...