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...dock at Old Bailey last week. Captain Peter Baker, M.P., war hero, audacious financier and poet, heard himself described by a psychiatrist as suffering from "hypomania," a ?5 word for big-shot complex. He pleaded guilty to six of seven charges against him, then, squinting through his horn-rimmed glasses, stood at soldierly attention as he was sentenced to seven years in prison...
...announcer assured the nation, "is the night all America has been waiting for!" A covey of actors, including Groucho Marx, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Eddie Mayehoff, were asked to coo and croon over convertibles, station wagons and sedans. In between plugs there were occasional songs by Betty Grable, horn tootings by Harry James and jokes by Ed Wynn. Groucho had nothing noncommercial to do except hide in the back seat of a roadster-and he did that badly. To many viewers, after such a drumbeat of ecstatic praises, it seemed only fair that the door...
...Horn of Plenty. Mattel's thesis is that a state monopoly can do more for Italy than foreign capital, thus does his best to ban outside investors and increase E.N.I.'s power. Starting with capital of $50 million last year, E.N.I, has rapidly expanded until now it controls most of Italy's production and refining, operates a tanker fleet, makes soap and sells 20% of all Italy's gasoline...
...Mozart: Horn Concertos (Dennis Brain; Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Herbert Von Karajan; Angel). Mozart wrote four horn concertos between 1782 and 1786, each one more fun than the last. Britain's Dennis Brain, one of the world masters on the French horn, ripples them off, both elegantly and buoyantly...
...wild cheering after the winning score, Joanno Rogers of Wellesley was hit on the head with a horn and was unconscious for five minutes...