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...frisked to his skivvies, found toting a .22-cal. pistol. Explained he: "I'm an honorary deputy sheriff of Los Angeles County." Unimpressed by the quaint mores of the county, which allows its more than 1500 honorary deputy lawmen-many of them Hollywood types who couldn't outdraw their great-aunts-to bear arms at will, the agents turned Sheriff Sam over to local police, who double-checked, decided he could go his way and take his funny little pistol with...
...admires their dynamic ability to organize monster demonstrations with all of the theatrical effects-banners, chanted slogans, parades, fiery speeches-which have always been his weakness. But the Communists frighten him too. Says an intimate: "If they staged rival rallies in, say, Surabaja, I am convinced the Communists would outdraw Sukarno. This would kill him. He knows the Commies can outdraw him, and so he has to stay with them...
...Very Good Friend in the Looking Glass, timidly torchy in I'm a Fool to Want You. From her Victor royalties, Jennie has an excellent prospect of becoming rich enough to retire before she is old enough to vote, but to do it she will have to outdraw some other new singers. A sampling of competing canaries...
Attendance figures are high. Record gate so far this year: 93,500, at the Los Angeles Coliseum, where the Rams tied the Forty-Niners, 24-24. Even less interesting games usually outdraw college football. Despite its brief season, which ends with an interdivision playoff in December, pro football is one of America's top-ranking spectator sports. The rough excitement of big men throwing their weight around with skillful violence more than matches amateur Saturday afternoons larded with college spirit. Players and fans have another advantage over the old college crowd: there is only one inter-conference playoff...
...hotel room near Boston one night recently, a private detective sat down before a television set and leaned back to enjoy a local show that, if aired nationally, might outdraw Dragnet. The private eye, hired by an angry husband to get the goods on his playful wife, was tuned to the goings-on in a nearby room, as relayed by a TV camera installed behind a oneway mirror in a closet door. Occasionally he snapped a photograph of the television picture. It was strictly routine; twice before his agency had used peeping TV in divorce actions, both times...