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LEVOY OFF His TELEPIX NUT, headlined Hollywood's Daily Variety...
...want to go on living." He brought an affidavit to the same effect from Yvette's mother in Brooklyn. "She was always high-strung when she was a girl," wrote Mrs. Noack. "She had a lot of crying spells. She had tantrums. She acted like a nut." At 15, the girl had run away from home, had lived with a middle-aged merchant on Manhattan's Park Avenue...
...that he will never fully use again and only the fondest recollections of the marines: "They don't hold it against you too much if you have made your living in intellectual pursuits. The Marine Corps loves eccentrics and I guess they thought I was something of a nut. So they gave me my chance...
Bernard Karfiol, a nut-brown little walnut of a man, is one of the country's most reserved and most respected artists. In almost half a century of painting he has had less than a dozen one-man shows, but they have earned him a place in a dozen topnotch museums. His latest exhibition, which opened in a Manhattan gallery last week, showed why Karfiol is famous in spite of himself...
When the time came to hand out the $50,000 first prize, it was won by a simple roll with the fanciest name of all-the "water-rising nut twist." The winner: Mrs. Ralph E. Smafield, 32, wife of a Detroit electrical engineer. The recipe, as expected, was a family treasure, which Mrs. Smafield got from her mother who "got it 25 years ago from a friend in Wisconsin." Pillsbury labeled it top secret, saved it for publication later...