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...begins to fear that he is turning into a working-class flat in Paddington. Sure enough, he does. His new name is 29 Scum Terrace, W.2. A doctor examines him from the inside. Putting a stethoscope on a table, he says, "Cough." No. 29 Scum Terrace coughs, and a knob falls off a bureau drawer...
...Hero Jerry, a TV repairman whose knob is on the fritz, stands to inherit a billion dollars, but he doesn't know it. An unscrupulous attorney (Zachary Scott) and his sinister sidekick (Jack Weston) know it very well, and they decide to make worm food of Jerry before Jerry finds out. The sidekick tries to run him down with his big, black, shark-shaped limousine-Jerry falls in a manhole just in time. The sidekick tries to prang him with a high-powered rifle-Jerry is so jerky that the punk just can't hold...
...split a ray of light, and she had an incredible ability to sing very softly at that altitude. No one could match her messa di voce-the technique of holding a single note while in creasing and diminishing its volume. She did it as if she were twirling a knob on a hi-fi amplifier. Some of this was wasted on numbers like Old Black Joe, but she al ways sang parts from the operas in which she had won her fame, from Norma to Lucia di Lammermoor...
Ever since television first flickered into life, it has attracted an ever-enlarging audience. The number of knob twisters dwarfs the circulation lists of even the largest magazine. In a speech before magazine promotion men at New York's Sherry-Netherland Hotel, Manhattan Adman Fairfax M. Cone (Foote. Cone & Belding) had some blunt words for magazines tempted to play the numbers game against the one-eyed monster of the marketplace. Cone's advice...
Like a man given a golden door knob, Viereck attempted to build a mansion to surround his toy. Unhappily, his intellectual, poetic, and dramatic resources sufficed only for a pasteboard imitation of a mansion, a flimsy substitute for a play. That line was one of only four Good Things about a wasted evening...