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...Lord Flea. Columbia Records' answer to Victor's Belafonte (who still outsells the rest of the field) is Terry Gilkyson, son of a Pennsylvania insurance executive, who teamed up five years ago with ex-Truck Driver Richard Dehr and sometime Real-Estate Man Frank Miller to form a trio called The Easy Riders. They have sold more than half a million copies of a ditty called Marianne, long familiar to Caribbean tourists. Although this version's heroine is a sweet girl whom even "little children" love, her origins show through the bowdlerized lyrics...
...film poem to Maurice Chevalier's Paris. Showman Chevalier, a redoubtable 68, doffed his straw hat and invited viewers to follow him and see "why Paris is Paris." Chevalier's Paris proved to be not the Folies Bergere, Napoleon's Tomb, the Deux Magots or the Flea Market, just as the ubiquitous Chevalier in Mills's film was not "the one with the lip who sings about love and the beauty of life." Rather, viewers got a wistful look at the seedy quarter of Menilmontant, where Chevalier was born and at 14 sang for pennies...
...privy is a privy in East Riding. But elsewhere it is a netty, nessy or petty. To be left-handed is to be anything from key-handed to gallock-handed, kay-handed, korky-handed, wappay-handed or skiffy-handed. In Lancashire a flea is a flenn or a fleck, but the people of north Lincolnshire and north Yorkshire still say lops-a leftover from the Danish invasions of the 9th century. Such a word as udder can assume a bewildering number of forms-ewer, elder...
...discovered.) As Mr. and Mrs. Fatigay return to the Congo, the groom tells shipboard interviewers: "My message to your readers is simply this. It is true my wife is not a woman. She is an angel . . . Behind every great man there may be a woman, and beneath every performing flea a hot plate, but beside the only happy man I know of-there is a chimp...
...electrician's apprentice, was mustered out of the German army in 1944 to operate a small plant making radio transformers and coils. At war's end he went back to his home town of Fürth and set up shop in a few flea-ridden rented rooms. He hoped to make radios, which were scarce and rationed. But the Allies forbade production of radio equipment. However, they did permit the manufacture of toys, so Grundig turned out a "toy": a knocked-down "Do-It-Yourself" radio kit. He took advance orders and deposits from retailers to finance...