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From now on, explained a Palace spokesman, the Princesses will "live the lives of two young girls." Elizabeth, who now has her own apartment at the Palace, likes helping Papa and Mama entertain. At Palace parties, the King loves to lead a conga line. Every fifth dance he dutifully foxtrots or waltzes with the Queen...
...year, have cut 500 phonograph discs. Last year the Royal Canadians were acclaimed by Orchestra World for introducing more song hits (250) than any other band. Some 30 were written by Brother Carmen-among them Confucius Say, Coquette, Oh, Moitle and Boo-Hoo (BooHoo, I'll tell my mama on you, the little game that you played has made her baby oh! so blue). Downbeat a trade journal for those who like it hot, scornfully voted Lombardo "The King of Corn...
...Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup, was sued for $30,000 by her ex-husband, Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzuej. She had promised to remarry him, he said, once she got her mother settled in a home of her own; so he bought a house for mama and a trousseau for Kay. Then, the day after they made a date to set the date, he read in a newspaper that she had just married Sugar Heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. (TIME,. Sept. 17). Macoco explained his suit: "It's the principle. ... I do not like being made a sucker...
...year-old Indian fighter. She was always after him to practice his reading and tirelessly corrected his pronunciation of such rich Oklahoma English as "An' thar was the ol' she-b'ar with two yearlin' cubs acomin' thu the bresh by the crick." Mama cried, too, when Markey got Ad Poak, the hired man, to take the horse clippers to his shoulder-length hair...
...whole, Mama is right. Except for the rare few which become bestsellers, novels are not big moneymakers. First novels seldom do more than pay publication costs. Yet writers go on dreaming of striking it rich-and sometimes it happens, as it just did to a plump, middle-aged Florida housewife whose first novel brought her $145,000 before publication...