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Like many another well-heeled man about town, Purcell had also gotten into show business; he had established a firm called Star Management Co. and was managing a string of nightclub singers. He helped promote one of them, a buxom and glad-eyed lass named Terri Stevens, by getting her named Miss Firefighter of 1950. Singer Toni Arden, who was appearing at Houston's Shamrock Hotel last week, said he had presented her with $4,000 worth of gowns. Singer Madelyn Russell announced, dimpling prettily, that he had given her lots of "good advice" about her career...
...title story, Author Paterson's narrator potters about in a house full of 19th Century oil paintings and sailing-ship logs. He pieces together the faded fragments of how a gingery Scots lass, "imperious as any queen," commanded a clipper ship a hundred years ago and won little but disdain for her courage. In another story, a stranger in a bar tells a writer about a Spanish matador whose wife's treachery and infidelity drove him out of the bull ring and into exile. Those sufficiently versed in trick endings may arrive at the conclusion before the author...
...which might well be revived now. David Burns is also a pleasure to watch as Niki Skolianos, formerly of South Chicago, who operates the inn and a poppy plantation on the side. Other praiseworthy performers are William Redfield as Mercury and Barbara Ashley as a Chloe, a Grecian lass. William Eythe and Priscilla Gilette, as the American newlyweds are pleasant but not especially brilliant...
Politicians used to gravitate to the "outpost," but the trend is lass marked of late. Only the Young Republicans still coagulate in the House that is farthest left on the Charles River line...
...Pennsylvania showed up with a girl on its teams. Some last minute scurrying got the lady a bed in an off-campus house at Radcliffe. She apparently liked the Annex, because she stayed a week. In the meantime, a McGill team arrived to debate Harvard, and the Pennsylvania lass struck up acquaintance with one of the Canadians. When last heard from she was on her way to Montreal for a long weekend...