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...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 a dose. But after the first preview, Studio Boss Dore Schary sent Lanza hampers of fruit, flowers and champagne...
Dollie Dimples (in private life, Mrs. Celesta Geyer of Orlando, Fla.) was heavier (555 Ibs.) last year, worked as a carnival fat lady. Then she had a heart attack and retired from show business. Last week, on her 50th birthday, five-foot Dollie was down to 154. Said she: "It's simple. All anyone has to do is diet properly." She did it by cutting down to 800 calories a day (normal U.S. diet: 3,000 calories...
Until recently, said the experts, the Air Force has put its faith in slingshot weapons, unwilling to sacrifice the high performance of its aircraft for heavier fire power. The jets caught them napping. With thick skins, fewer moving parts, simple fuel systems and high speed, the new aircraft usually shake off machine-gun fire like a goose hit by dust shot. Finally, report the gunmen, the economy-minded reign of Defense Secretary Louis Johnson stifled all but the most important research in aircraft weapons. At that point the Air Force and Ordnance stacked their chips on rockets...
...then commented: "You're not as bad as you have been pictured. Perhaps more of us would be gamblers if we'd been so lucky as you have." That conclusion hotted up the Tennessee temper of crime-busting Senator Estes Kefauver: Cohen should have been given a heavier sentence "instead of a pat on the back." From the Billy Sunday Memorial Tabernacle near Warsaw, Ind. came the view of Evangelist Billy Graham: "I am praying that after Mickey Cohen has paid his debt to society, he will give his heart and life...
...cues for a few operatic bits (the best: Song of the Golden Calf, from Faust), and two old popular tunes (I'll See You in My Dreams, Everything I Have Is Yours). If his style is a shade heavy for deft comedy, it is certainly no heavier than the script...