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...Gee Strings & Opportunity. For two years the big boom thundered on. "Los Angeles people," Editor Otis loftily assured prospective settlers, "do not carry arms. Indians are a curiosity, the gee string is not a common article of apparel here, and Los Angeles has three good hotels, 27 churches and 350 telephone subscribers." But the boom grew voracious. Real estate was traded over and over in a day; men sold their places in the restive land-office queues, joined the end of the line to begin buying again. Mountaintop lots made paper millionaires out of penniless speculators. Before Harrison Otis could...
...embarrassed by being an on-camera Svengali. often appears to stoop gallantly to make his protégée as towering as he is. The highlights of any such Graustarkian foolishness usually, though strangely, come when Graustark momentarily seems real. Olivier does the trick, facing Marilyn's gee-whiz antics on their carriage-borne way to Westminster Abbey, when he cracks the faintest smile in film history. Marilyn does not achieve it when she cracks a glycerin tear in supposedly stunned awe of the choir-thundering coronation sequence...
...first, the words that rolled so precisely off the pronouncer's tongue ("All-right-y. Yours is an old spelling-bee favorite, the study of fishes: ik-thee-olo-gee") seemed a cinch. By lunchtime. Mrs. Wilford White, the chief judge, had rung her bell only 16 times to signal the fall of contestants. But after lunch, the pronouncer began to give out words that even he admitted he could not define...
Throughout all the assaults of doubting newsmen. Bush remained good-naturedly sure of himself. "Gee, at first I thought nothing of this," he said, as if surprised by the attention. "Queer things happen to us pilots. Why, down in Sydney, there was that business of the shark . . . but let's not go into that...
...best-looking men in the Senate. George Smathers scarcely missed a dance, raced to and fro between his table (for a hasty sip of Scotch) and the dance floor. Idaho's young (32) Freshman Senator Frank Church, ambushed into a dance with Washington Society Hostess Gwen Cafritz, gasped: "Gee whiz...