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...clown. She can fumble a cigarette between her teeth like a crazed nicotine addict and fire off machine-gun bursts of smoke. She can walk as if her body were an afterthought, or collapse in a chair like a punctured accordion. She can chew grammar like bubble gum, or make English ring with the elegance of George III's crystal...
...looked and sounded like a family reunion. To be sure, Tom Coleman was on trial for killing a Yankee civil rights worker. But no one gathered in the slave-built, whitewashed Lowndes County courthouse - least of all the paunchy, gum-chewing defendant - allowed that to interfere with the civilities. There, grinning across the court room, was Coleman's nephew, Robert Coleman Black, one of his defense attorneys. A defense witness was a first cousin. Mrs. Kelley Coleman, the court clerk, was a cousin by marriage. The defendant's own name even appeared on the list of potential jurors...
...Phyllis Curtin makes the same point in terms of everyday life by noting that "children sing when they really mean it: 'You're a dirty bul-ly.' " She even illustrates music's power by citing, "Double your pleasure / Double your fun, / With Doublemint, Doublemint, / Doublemint gum...
...Smith is a very meticulous man. At the plant of his Wolverine Aluminum Corp. in Lincoln Park, Mich., where aluminum corners, gutters and sills for houses are made, he rides about in a small electric cart, making sure that workers use ashtrays and do not throw gum wrappers on the floor. When Smith listed his growing firm (1964 sales: $7.2 million) on the American Stock Exchange last month, he traveled to Manhattan to get the usual VIP treatment: a tour of the exchange, lunch with the officers, the chance to buy the first shares of the traded stock. What...
...vast laboratory program are pills to color hair and tablets to increase mental concentration. The company is also developing a line of men's cosmetics, including colognes and skin moisturizers. This may seem a bit far out, but after all, any company that can put chewing gum in orbit may just be the one to put moisturizing lotions on stubbly chins...