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...Just a fling without emotion...
...Glorious Fling. A popular Madrid story insists that Jimmy's father once banished him to a Mora ranch, where he promptly sold all the family cattle and spent the money in a glorious fling in Bilbao. When the money ran out, Jimmy supported himself by playing the piano in a local bar. Visitors to Jimmy's overstuffed Madrid apartment are impressed by his fur-lined easy chair, stupefied by the flowers that are banked everywhere, even in the bathroom, and often intimidated by his bad-tempered chow dog and five enthusiastic great Danes. Jaime's mother, Dona...
Jock of course takes it all as a personal affront, and when the new boy outrages the other officers too-by suggesting that the manner of their footing in the fling, a point of pride in kilted regiments, is a disgrace to Scotland-Jock sees his chance and takes it. At the next regimental rout he defiantly leads a drunken reel. The colonel throws a tantrum, disgracing him self before his officers and the battalion before its guests. But the triumph and the whisky go to Jock's head, and he makes an even more costly blunder than...
...story concerns a whiskey-soaked, carousing mother and the young daughter, Jo, whom she has been dragging around from flophouse to flophouse. The mother decides to have another fling at marriage and leaves the girl (whom in a more profound sense she had deserted long ago). Left alone, Jo seeks love like a child, and finds it with a Negro sailor who soon must leave. Alone again, Jo is attended by a young homosexual who is almost capable of loving her in a limited sense, but again in a futile one. The mother returns to find her daughter...
...Dilly Bean's success is a tribute to the power of advertising. Armed with her mother's Southern recipe for pickled beans, a North Carolinian named Sonya Hagna, 24, decided to give up her New Jersey schoolteaching job in 1958 and take a fling at pickling. She enlisted Fellow Schoolteacher Jacquelyn Park, 25, began pickling Dilly Beans and packing them by hand, then set up Park & Hagna with joint capital of $4,000, engaged a fledgling ad agency named Papert, Koenig & Lois. The agency suggested an irreverent ad campaign aimed at making dilly-tantes out of people...