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Betwixt and between, he dashed off four comic essays for The New Yorker, appeared on numerous TV shows at $10,000 a shot, played Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas for $25,000 a week, turned out two bestselling comedy albums, and lent his owlish visage to several advertisements ranging from Smirnoff's vodka to Foster Grant sunglasses. Now he is completing a new nightclub act as well as a play about "a happily neurotic love affair." This summer he plans to begin work on Take the Money and Run, a new film he co-authored and will...
...ease credit to the extent the Administration wishes. The war in Viet Nam seems unlikely to expand again by major pro- portions, but no one can be sure. The international balance of payments remains a constant problem. In the eco-nomic bestiary, Johnson is trying to be owlish rather than bullish or bearish. "There will," he predicts, "be surprises along...
...Most of Moyers' work was done behind the scenes until, in another crisis last July, he stepped in to fill the vacant office of White House press secretary. Thus, it was not until the most recent emergency, the President's gall-bladder operation, that Moyers' smooth, owlish, utterly earnest face finally became familiar on the nation's TV screens. Day after day, Americans watched in fascination as Moyers read the complex, meticulously detailed summaries of President Johnson's operation and convalescence...
...King had changed, and everyone in Brussels noticed it; he seemed sportier, more dashing-but he kept blinking. Tired of looking owlish, Belgium's myopic King Baudouin, 35, had doffed his familiar bottle-bottom glasses after 20 years, got himself fitted for contact lenses. MORE GLAMOUR FOR BAUDOUIN, cheered the Flemish weekly Zondag Morgen. There were no cheers from Treasury officials, who had to figure out what would become of those millions of stamps and 20-franc notes featuring the King's bespectacled old image...
...millions of smokers the world over, the name Dunhill conjures up visions of prized pipes, savory Havanas and the carriage-trade atmosphere of a London tobacconist. Actually, Dunhill International, Inc., sells smoking supplies almost as a sideline, is based in Ohio and is run from Houston by an owlish executive who began life as a North Dakota farm boy. Says Chairman Reuben Askanase: "We want to reach customers from the cradle to the tomb." Dunhill nearly succeeds. Beyond its shops from Manhattan to San Francisco, it is a diversified company whose interests range from baby-bottle nipples and baseballs...