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...Moscow's mammoth GUM department store a plump, blonde secretary mooned over a Tula portable sewing machine priced at 1,200 rubles,* finally planked down 300 rubles, signed some papers and took it with her. In an Izmailovo radio store a middle-aged man watched the clerk packing an expensive Luxe radio-phonograph and said: "I only had to pay 440 rubles, and we'll have music in our home this very night." Whether cameras, clocks, accordions, motor scooters, outboard motors or silver fox furs, the terms were everywhere the same: 20%-25% down, a service charge...
Last week, as college football began across the nation, Coach Graham sent his lightweight Coast Guard team against the hard-nosed recruits of Geneva College (enrollment: 900) in Beaver Falls, Pa. It was no fun-especially for Otto Graham. Hands jammed deep into his pockets, chomping gum furiously, he writhed on the sidelines as Geneva toyed with his cadets. He bellowed frantic warnings ("Pass! It's a pass!"), once barked at officials ("Watch those off sides...
...young widower, Sinatra gives a kind of bubble-gum snap to his role, and delivers just about as much substance. Young Eddie (The Music Man) Hodges is fine as the child who plays gin rummy with his father at 4 o'clock in the morning. As the feverish businessman who cannot fathom the playboy's vagaries, Edward G. Robinson has an intonation and gesture to fit every line-and all the best lines are his. To a cab driver who cynically returns a ten-cent tip: "What'sa matter, you don't need a dime...
...surest measure of the new sluggers comes from Washington's small-fry fans. In the free-trading market of bubble-gum baseball cards, a single Mantle or Ted Williams used to command seven lesser players. Last week a card-swapping youngster firmly announced the new prices: "I'll give 20 for one of Killebrew." What about Allison? "Twenty, too," he said, "but nobody...
...illiterate chronic drunk, who cried when his wife Pearlie and two-year-old son rushed up to him before he was sentenced; Patrick Scarborough, 20, orphaned at seven, when his mother was killed in a barroom brawl and his father committed suicide; David Ervin Beagles, 18, a gum-chomping high school senior who held a switchblade knife to the girl's throat before the assault; Ollio Stoutamire, 16, a sometime juvenile delinquent, who has been raised by assorted relatives since his mother's death at his birth...