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After 14 years of marriage to onetime Heavyweight Puncher Lou Nova, his wife decided she wanted a divorce. Among the reasons: his habit of putting his bare feet on the dining room table next to his mother-in-law's lemon meringue...
Father Luciano Negrini and the girl for whom he had doffed his priestly habit (TIME, Aug. 13) began a new career last week-selling ready-tied neckties. The Super Record Tiemakers of Bologna announced that they were sending Negrini and Claire Young around to retailers and rural fairs in a sound truck to peddle their wares...
Cavaliers & Cromwells. Highway robbery in England began on an amateur footing. One Thomas Dun, a precocious boy who had developed a nervous habit of murdering people, stabbed a farmer one day in the reign of Henry I (1100-1135), confiscated his wain of corn and sold it at Bedford Market. Thereby Dun gave rise to an unpleasant tradition of brutality in a business that otherwise often had its lighthearted moments...
...bought any books at all. Today the clubs alone have an estimated membership of about 3,000,000. Furthermore, another 5,000,000 have at some time joined and dropped out, and may still have the bookstore habit...
...albums of the operatic numbers used in the picture had been sold. The sale was doubtless helped by Lanza's technique of plugging his records and films like a disc jockey from the concert stage-an unorthodox practice that pains some traditionalists even more than his habit of acknowledging applause with the overhead handclasp of a prizefighter. Yet no one quite foresaw what a hit the movie would be. Some of MGM's top brass took a gloomy view on the theory that the U.S. public would not buy anything heavier than Victor Herbert in so large...