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Vacant. In Fall River, Mass., Frank Medeiros was fined $175 after he carefully got into a taxicab at the end of an all-night fling, drove it home himself when he discovered the driver was missing...
Political Career. After a brief fling at teaching political science at the universities of Louisiana and Minnesota, Humphrey orbited naturally and eagerly to politics, was elected mayor of Minneapolis in 1945 at the age of 34. A thoroughgoing and effective reformer, he vigorously cleaned up the city, at the same time began a prudent purge of Communists and Wallace Progressives from Minnesota's lively Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party. In 1948 he was elected to the Senate, descended on Washington as one of the brashest and most brilliant of the Fair Deal's Young Turks. In a decade...
...progress of evil as it pickles its weak title character, The Drunkard turned the Theatre Mart into a favorite resort for W. C. Fields, Mae West, Lily Pons. Though the playhouse has been put on the block, there is a chance that The Drunkard may survive for one last fling. Its producer hopes to have the company tour the U.S. and culture-thirsty foreign lands...
...Sunset Strip (ABC, 9-10 p.m.). A day at the races gets this kooky crew involved in a fancy fix and a brief fling with attempted murder...
...enough. Reese's wife Esther, who grew up knowing the smell but not the taste of money, venerates the forms as if they were sacraments. To be well bred is to be ill bedded, she thinks, and so she is frigid. But when Reese undertakes a Long Island fling with another man's wife, Esther harries him with hot fury...