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...hero's little brother in an otherwise routine south western, Elvis Presley all but steals the show from such better-knowrn players as Richard Egan. Debra Paget and Mildred Dunnock. Hollywood, moreover, foresees a box-office bonanza when the millions who buy Presley's pressings (Heartbreak Hotel, Hound Dog) go to see his first picture-and that will really be a steal...
...Kremlin had to decide: Was it worth it to hound the revolutionaries into the hills, to fight for months a war of repression while the world looked on? Or was it better to cut their losses, settle for what control they could keep over Hungary, and take their chances at restraining other satellite nations from seizing the same opportunity? In six days the Hungarian people made history-six days that shook the world...
Manhattan gossipists worked hard to fill the gaps made in their columns by the departure for Hollywood of robustious (40-18-35½) Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield. With a truffle hound's nose for publicity, Jayne quickly set filmland agog by flapping her charms at anyone who could rush her into print or picture. Lunching with the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywood Legman Joe Hyams, Jayne, bubbling over her first film stardom ("Everybody calls me Miss Mansfield") in a movie to be released under the titillating title of The Girl...
...Ingram's obsession for cleanliness. When he borrowed $700 to build the first turreted White Castle hamburger stand at Wichita, Kans. in the '20s. he decided to give the customer 5? hamburger, a shiny counter and immaculate countermen. He got his shiny counters, but his hound's-tooth countermen were hard to come by. After a couple of trips to the laundry, their 35? white linen caps looked like old socks-shrunken, grey and frayed. Said Ingram: Why not paper caps...
...Harrow boy,' but would also speak of 'an Harrovian.' " But what, asked Lord Rea, would Lord Conesford do with one-syllable words? "In the case of an inn sign of a public house, would he look at it as 'A Horse and a Hound' or 'An Orse and an Ound'?" Lord Merthyr fell back on no less an authority than Fowler to prove that an hotel would be hopelessly old-fashioned-but to no avail. When the debate was over, the ans won out. Said aman Lord Merthyr of an-man Lord Faringdon...