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Strike It Rich's producer Walter Framer replied by registering "surprise" that "we are being subjected to an attack for helping people who deserve help." His pressagent, Sydney DuBroff, indicated that the show would fight the proposed licensing and stated that "we have courts for the adjudication of such problems." Sponsor Colgate-Palmolive Co. announced that it had checked Framer's books and records and "found everything in order," but was, nevertheless, asking for another audit immediately. NBC, which carries Strike It Rich on radio, and CBS, which carries it on TV, assured newsmen that they were busy...
...framer of this apothegm is the proprietor of both a good restaurant and an unusual personality. He is the self-styled Prince Michael Alexandrovitch Dmitry Obolensky Romanoff, once a Brooklyn-born orphan boy named Harry Gerguson, who spent half his life amiably panhandling the rich of two continents. But in Hollywood, where Mike Romanoff settled after being immortalized in a five-part New Yorker profile, he finally cashed in on the fact that he is one of the few genuine, 24-carat phonies in a city where thin plating has often been known to pose for the real thing...
...testimoniale, prescuted by Lloyd Marcus '48, were in the form of two scrolls, designed by J. R. Rosen, famous as framer of University degrees. Unprecedented in PBH history, the awards came as a complete surprise to Brooks and Meltzer...
...electifying address preceding Lauterbach's, Cord Meyer, Jr., AVC National Planning Committee member and chief framer of the organization's foreign policy, outlined minimum steps for strengthening the U. N. to prevent war. Meyer quoted remarks made to him by one of America's leading atomic scientists to the effect that war appears inevitable, that it will shortly become technically impossible to control the production of atomic weapons...
...roly-poly picture framer named Boris Mirski came to Boston from Lithuania. Ever since, while framing New England portraits and brown landscapes for the residents of staid Beacon Hill, he made modern art-a much less salable commodity in Boston-his side line. This week, in a redbrick, 78-year-old Back Bay mansion, right next door to the stuffy Guild of Boston Artists on swank Newbury Street, he opened an art gallery with an exhibition of 53 paintings by a Guatemalan Indian, Carlos Mérida...