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...With Christmas approaching, the 3,000-grave Henno Memorial Pets Cemetery at Glen Ellen, Calif., prepared for its gayest season of the year. The Henno cemetery's clients maintain a high degree of active pet-remembrance: one departed dog is interred on an innerspring mattress, a good many other animals, birds & snakes are buried in infants' caskets and have granite or marble headstones with such inscriptions as "Resting on the Trail" and "Our Baby Girl." Over the holidays, however, many survivors also set up decorated Christmas trees or holly wreaths for the "little sleepers," and one San Francisco...
...unhappy cop or bumbling sheriff, who bit the most dust. Governor after governor struggled to bring the vast new territory into a lawful state; each arrived with a new broom under his arm and left trailing it behind him. Australia's yellow press and its best and gayest ballads flourished in the sort of soil that gave Jesse James...
Poulenc: Les Biches (Paris Conservatory Orchestra conducted by Roger Désormière; London). Impudent musical commentary on I'amour, composed for a ballet by one of France's gayest composers. Superbly played...
Slumping Harem. The ocean bred its gay as well as its devil dogs. One of the gayest, Alexander Hare, a rich English trader, settled on one of the beautiful atolls of the Cocos-Keeling Islands in 1827 with a slave harem of 117 beauties from Malaya, Java, Bali and points east. A former partner and prior claimant, John Clunies-Ross, a Scot, soon showed up with his family and a crew of predatory bachelors. To keep them out of what he called his "flower garden," the latter-day Solomon ladled out rum to Ross's men, penned his women...
...season's gayest comedies, Pat and Mike benefits by George Cukor's shrewd direction, the sprightly lines of Authors Ruth Gordon and Garson Kanin, and the comic capering of Old Hands Hepburn and Tracy. Aldo Ray is amusing as a dumb boxer with a foghorn voice. There is a pungent gallery of prognathous fictional sports characters, while such real sports personalities as Babe Didrikson Zaharias, Gussie Moran, Donald Budge, Alice Marble, Frank Parker and Betty Hicks show up in person...