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...cups of coffee a day (no liquor), makes regular rounds of such Manhattan hangouts as Toots Shor's, Lindy's, the Stage delicatessen or Sardi's. When Tony Galento, the barrel-shaped bartender-turned-fighter, was flattened by Joe Louis, Cannon wired big (250 Ib.) Toots Shor: "Lay low. This is a bad night for fat saloonkeepers." Scarcely a day passes in season that Cannon doesn't go to the ballpark, fights or races. Once, after a well-wisher introduced him to an English duchess and told him that she had "married three titles," Cannon answered...
...second compressor, spinning faster, takes over and crams the air into the combustion chambers at much higher pressure (up to twelve to one) than could be reached by a single compressor alone. The result is to increase the power of the engine and to reduce its fuel consumption per Ib. of thrust by as much...
...whole time." For the country where the pot is on the go despite rationing (varying between 2 and 3 oz. a person a week), the Tories had good news. After twelve years, the government stopped rationing of tea. In future, only the price (averaging 65? a Ib.) will prevent tea addicts from buying as much as they want...
Because You're Mine (MGM) is an undernourished cinemusical starring a slimmed-down (156 Ib.) Mario Lanza (who tipped 220 Ibs. in last year's The Great Caruso). Lanza plays a drafted opera star who gets involved with a hardboiled, musically inclined sergeant (James Whitmore) and his pretty, singing sister (Doretta Morrow). In the course of the plot, Lanza, singing in a voice distinguished for its sheer volume, delivers 14 numbers, ranging from Il Trovatore and Cavalleria Rusticana arias to All the Things You Are, in a variety of settings, from an opera stage and a nightclub...
...this mean that the law of supply & demand would bring prices down? Livestock prices had already taken some pretty sharp turnbles. The best steers last week were bringing only about 25?-33¾? a Ib. on the hoof v. 29?-37½? a year ago. Retail prices were down, but relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates...