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...singer, Sands mixes hoot and hush, moo and moon eyes. He is a sort of cleaned-up Presley. He enunciates better and grinds less, is less vulgar in sound and manner, also less able to turn on the excitement that Presley can frequently generate. But Tommy is doing fine without wriggling up to Elvis' loftier heights. In the three months since the Kraft show, Sands has taken the bathos treatment on This Is Your Life, sung on five network shows, screen-tested for a role in Marjorie Morningstar. He gets about 2,000 fan letters a day, has pulled...
...reluctantly, they watched him march back to the ring. With vengeance in his eye and blood bespattering his "suit of lights," he faced his second bull. Taking quick control, he played the bull with daring passes that brought the crowd to its feet chanting oles. Then, in a sudden hush, he killed the bull cleanly with a single thrust. As the bull dropped to its knees, the crowd shouted approval. Hurriedly consulting, the judges ruled that Velazquez should receive a fair trophy...
Some of the most hush-hush medical research has been pursued in dozens of laboratories in the effort to find a contraceptive pill. Last week, after months of rumors, President John Searle of Chicago drug manufacturers G. D. Searle & Co. guardedly told stockholders that the company "hopes to introduce ... an item this year for a variety of menstrual disorders . . . There has been speculation that the drug may have a use in the field of physiological birth control." But its safety and effectiveness in that field have not been fully tested, are far from certain...
...Gerry's bed and eventually lies in it. World War I shatters their illicit bliss and sweeps the two meninto their last mountain adventure this time in the Italian Alps. Gerry is killed, and back in England Peter is confronted with Emily's maternity gown and the hush-lipped word: "Gerry...
There was a hush of astonishment, then a thunderclap of applause. Weeks later in the election of 1906, Liberal Party Candidate Joseph Pierre René Hilaire Belloc reaped his reward by scraping home in South Salford null a majority of 852 and becoming the first and last British M.P. to win a seat despite being a French-born Catholic, an author, a confessed radical and an avowed lover of good drink...