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...cars (up to 210 h.p.) in the low-priced field. To meet competition and-win more than its present 1 % of the market, Studebaker has thrown out its "sporty" styling, redesigned most models along roomy Big Three lines. The sports-car look will be retained only in a new "Hawk" line...
...gossip. The meeting of Sullivan and Winchell was explosive. Out of their four years together on the Graphic grew a feud that lasts to this day. Says Ed: "Winchell's all through-and I'm an expert on Winchelliana. I've followed him like a hawk. He's a dead duck. He couldn't be resuscitated by injections at half-hour intervals...
...remaining palace has forty guest rooms, 15 acres of gardens, several swimming pools and a fabulous, ruby-studded gold hawk. The maharaja still pilots his own C-47, still rates two wives, a 17-gun salute abroad, 19 guns at home. Because of his high status among Indian princes, and the fact that he approved independence of India despite personal losses, he was named Rajpramukh of Rajasthan, a new state made up of Jaipur, Jodhpur* and 16 other principalities. In his new lifetime job, the maharaja holds the rank, but few of the responsibilities of governor, draws an adequate salary...
...Anna Magnani and Director Vittorio De Sica. Across the street, the Strega's tables swarm with so many starlets and bit players that harried directors have been known to hustle over and do some fast casting on the spot. Most international is the Caffè; Doney, where newsboys hawk the London Daily Telegraph, France-Soir and Variety, and waiters accept orders for milkshakes or ham-and-eggs without batting an eye. Patrons include Egypt's ex-King Farouk, Hollywood's ex-Star Bruce Cabot (now a fixture of Rome's colony of movie expatriates), visiting...
...strong even in successful bankers, and Liambey was anxious to make himself even richer. Last year he threw about half of his bank's resources into a commercial TV station near the French border on the theory that it would reap a fortune from French advertisers unable to hawk their products on the noncommercial, state-owned French TV. But the station turned out to have an embarrassing connection with the French government, which vetoed the advertising contracts...