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...comedian is not a man who says funny things," Ed Wynn once said. "A comedian is one who says things fun ny. For instance, a comedian is not a man who opens a funny door - a co median is one who opens a door in a funny...
Chicago, which already has 15 miles of paths along the lake front stretching from one end of the city to the other, is considering putting bikeways down the median strips of its entire boulevard system. States are finally taking action too. Last month, Wisconsin's Governor Warren P. Knowles opened a 297-mile-long bikeway that meanders across the entire state, from La Crosse in the west to Kenosha in the east, the first of its kind in the nation...
...Harlem than the other, white-owned, banks. Hudgins claims that the bank makes long-term loans to Negroes which they cannot obtain from white banks. In practice, the degree and nature of such discrimination is difficult to measure, since many Negroes who would like to borrow have low incomes--median Negro income in New York City is a little more than half that of median white income--and cannot hope to measure up to the established credit standards for long-term, low-cost loans. Hudgins firmly believes that discrimination on all loaning for large amounts or long periods is wide...
...Pacific Southwest. These new readers tend to be managerial and professional people, relatively affluent, and getting a little younger. A decade ago, more than half of TIME household heads were managers and professionals, and today the figure is just about the same: 53%. Over the same ten years, their median annual income has risen from $6,090 to $10,907; their median age has dropped from 40.2 years...
Million in Tahoe. The Sammy Davis Show, set for Friday nights at 8:30 E.S.T., will finally provide a showcase wide enough to demonstrate all of the star's many selves: singer, dancer, co median, actor, mimic, impresario. No one, including Davis, has ever defined his appeal. As a high-swinging singer he has sold well over 6,000,000 records; yet many singers have sold more. As a nonstop hoofer he can switch from waltz clog to Watusi without missing a step; yet so can Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly. As a multivoiced mimic he can do nearly...