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...farmer's wagon through police lines. The next year he was pool photographer at Teddy Roosevelt's Russo-Japanese peace conference in Portsmouth, N.H. "You really had to push to get shots in those days," recalls Rosy. "The other guys would pull your slides or put chewing gum on your lenses...
...comedy marriage, through Central Park-until he finally finds Annabel's reincarnation in Dolores Haze, known as Lolita. She is his culture-vulture landlady's daughter in a small New England town where Humbert has holed up to do some literary work. The girl is just a gum-chewing, Coke-filled, comic-book-educated sub-teen-ager -but she is Humbert's fatal love...
...Lean Detroit Righthander Jim Bunning, chomping impassively on a wad of gum, hit a batter and walked two, but struck out twelve others, got Red Sox Slugger Ted Williams on a routine outfield fly for the last out to wrap up a 3-0 victory at Boston's Fenway Park, become the first major leaguer to pitch a no-hit game...
...signaled by bells ringing coast to coast on its "hot line," with appeals to advertisers to switch from the "Top 40" tunes to NBC's "Top 40" personalities, e.g., Groucho Marx, Marlene Dietrich. NBC's pitch in ads: "If you sell white buckskin shoes and bubble gum, by all means use a jukebox station...
...Nikita Khrushchev's Russia the "new class" of elite bureaucrats is learning to have class. Moscow's GUM department store now features the sack, as well as Western-style swimsuits (see cuts). Explains the fashion show commentator: "The masses will grow accustomed to dresses as high as 14 inches from the floor." But neither the masses nor the class will be able to buy the dresses-only the materials and patterns. The cost for one dress: about two weeks...