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...chord" style. In All the Things You Are Watson on the alto and Ray Pitts on the tenor sax-the only two with much experience together-engaged in a beautifully fluid duet in the current "counterpoint" style. Lewis on the conga drum and Arnold Palmer on the regular drum outfit both achieved tympanic effects from their instruments in a highly amusing question-and-answer period near the end of Honeysuckle...
Another man might have kept his shame to himself. Not Gaston. He not only told his wife and family; he insisted that something be done to offset his ancestor's shame-perhaps outfit a boat and attack an English yacht in sight of a Riviera crowd. His relatives were understanding but unmoved. Perhaps, said Gaston's brother, he could arrange to have his small son lick a British youngster his own age. Poor Gaston went to his favorite café and, with the help of his favorite muscatel, began morosely to imagine every detail of his historic disgrace...
...established U.S. airlines, North American Airlines is neither swan nor goose but an unloved and awkward swoose. Technically a nonscheduled operator under CAB rules calling for "irregular" and "infrequent" flights, it has nevertheless grown into a $9,000,000 outfit operating one of the biggest transcontinental air-coach services. Last week, with North American's 1954 sales topping $11 million, the CAB decided to clip the big hybrid's wings. A CAB examiner recommended that North American be grounded for operating a scheduled airline in violation of CAB regulations...
...Jungle. The men largely responsible for the boom are three genial, Louisiana-born brothers named Brady-Lawrence, 58, Ashton, 56, and William, 54-who have become wealthy by a combination of brainy prospecting and luck. They found the sulphur, and now own Gulf Sulphur Corp., plus an exploration outfit called Amican Sulphur Co., S.A., and have sizeable stock interests in both Pan American and Mexican Gulf Sulphur. Working as a team, brothers Lawrence and Bill run the administrative end; Ashton is the geologist...
...back to civilization? Suddenly they get a vein-freezing answer. An oil well catches fire. Only an explosion can put it out. The nearest nitroglycerin sits in a shed 300 miles from the blaze-in the very town where the men happen to be. The oil company, a U.S. outfit, offers $2,000 apiece for four good drivers with the guts to truck the soup, over roads that hardly deserve the name, to the scene of the fire...