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...character she is playing that they are unconscious of Shirley as a skilled performer. But they are likely to remember the character for days or for years to come. Radio listeners who have only known her as Miss Duffy would swear that she is a hilariously funny bit of fuzz-brained fluff. Moviegoers who have seen her only as Lola in Come Back, Little Sheba have difficulty imagining her as anything but an aging frump in a kimono. But lucky theatergoers have been persuaded, at one time or another, that she was an intense, good-looking young schoolteacher, a tippling...
...Francisco, some teen-agers dye their hair green. Others pencil their eyebrows in red, paint cat's whiskers on their faces, wear purple lipstick. Their hats are trimmed with swizzle sticks, foxtails and pipe cleaners. Shouting the password "Zorch!" (fuzz-beard lingo for Hollywood's "colossal!"), they storm into a radio studio in the Palace Hotel five nights a week to pay homage to a bop-talking disk jockey named Richard Bogardus Blanchard. In five months "Red" Blanchard, 33, has zoomed from a routine job as staff announcer at station KCBS to a position that his pressagents describe...
Small Change. In Alzey, Germany, Friedrich Bauer was sentenced to ten weeks in jail for buffing the fuzz off gooseberries and selling them for grapes...
...more the conflicting claims, the shrugs, the protests of legalities tended to fuzz up the record, the more they clarified it too. U.S. Communists and fellow travelers were allowed to congregate in the U.N. secretariat because no top-ranking official thought the matter very important. It was, indeed, a case of "mechanical" slippage. Neither Acheson nor Lie did much about it until the New York grand jury began taking testimony and the congressional investigations made the matter headline material-to the infinite damage of U.N. prestige in the U.S. (and vice versa). Never had the case for public investigation...
After the national tennis tournament at Forest Hills last summer, U.S. Davis Cup hopes hit bottom. The U.S.'s No. 1 player, Vic Seixas, was soundly whipped by a fuzz-cheeked Australian named Ken Rosewall, 17. Last week, at Australia's Victorian tournament, last warmup before the Davis Cup interzone finals, U.S. hopes were clearly on the rise...