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...from Doña Alicia, Poet Antonio Zubiaurre launched into his Death of Manolete, a lyrical tribute to one of Spain's great bullfighters. He had scarcely got the bull into the ring when his lisping Castilian was interrupted by the splat of a tomato against his coat lapel...
...their eagerness to clutch everybody by the lapel and talk about the new 1950 models, the Ford Dealers of America last week bought up the" commercial time on 23 unsponsored shows on two radio networks, CBS and Mutual. In case any listener misses the point, Ford plans to follow its two-week radio barrage with a similar television drumfire. Besides its regular TV shows (the CBS Ford Theater and NBC Kay Kyser show), Ford commercials will pour from five sustaining shows on all four networks. Said Ford Vice President L. D. Crusoe of the unprecedented $500,000 radio & TV splurge...
...last hymn, a tall, blond man with angular features and deep-set eyes made himself a little conspicuous by fooling with some wires which seemed to run from him down to the edge of the stage. This man turned out to be Billy Graham who had been connecting his lapel microphone to the amplifying system...
Also on exhibit are painted match box trays and containers, animal, lapel, pins, and greeting cards. There are etchings hand-tinted by W. Harry Smith and linoleum block prints of Boston and Cambridge by Louis Novak...
Gettysburg & Gainsborough. Though Hiram Parke now does little auctioneering himself, he still has a quick eye for the furtive lapel-clutching, pamphlet-waving, nose-pulling signals that can mean a bid. And he has not lost the ability to keep bidding at the fever pitch that he first showed more than 50 years ago in his first auction, when he sold a $20 gold piece for $100. In his galleries the hammer has swung on such fabled items as the fifth and final manuscript of the Gettysburg Address ($54,000), the Bay Psalm Book, first book published...