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...Nixon was the 1952 affair of the "Nixon Fund," which also makes the most dramatic reading in the book. Ike was at first undecided about whether or not to drop his running mate and told reporters that anyone on his ticket would have to prove himself "clean as a hound's tooth." Hearing about the remark, Nixon "forced a disbelieving smile and muttered something to himself." Later, Ike seemed to try to postpone a decision; reports Mazo: "Nixon stiffened and said sternly, 'There comes a time in a man's life when he has to fish...
...years a dog columnist and a roving judge of dog shows, Riddle has been bitten only once, at a show years ago in Tennessee. The offending entry, a basset hound, paid dearly for its bootleg nip: it was disqualified on the spot. Riddle is devoted to man's best friend ("I'm just a sucker for dogs"), but he considers biting (especially Riddle) the unpardonable sin. To a lady asking how to cure her dog of chewing on the baby, Riddle replied tersely: "With a .45 pistol...
...Mike did this spontaneous roll-out," explained the short, intense young man, "and there was something nasty in the music. I just blurted out, 'You ain't nuthin' but a hound dog,' and there it was." Hound Dog, as bawled by Elvis Presley, sold 5,000,000 records, enthroned Tunesmiths Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller as kings of the state of annoyance called rock 'n' roll. In all, their raucous inspirations have since sold 27 million records, and last week their latest, Charlie Brown, made its first million...
Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller began their career as amateur songwriters at Los Angeles City College, earned less than $2,000 apiece their first two years. Then, in 1952, they whelped Hound Dog in 20 minutes flat. "Originally, it was folk blues," says Leiber. "When Presley, shall we say, performed it, there was a misunderstanding of the original lyrics-it was designed to be sung by a girl." Adds Leiber: "The thing to remember is you're not writing a song but a record. What you gotta do is get these kids to identify. That...
...Productions Ltd. is sure to be boffo all over the world. Last week Hammer's short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles. In three years, Hammer's remakes of Curse of Frankenstein, Dracula, and other items from Hollywood's library of horror classics have earned more dollars from world sales than the products of any other British moviemaker in the last decade. Cracks a Hammer executive inevitably...