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Keynote Address. In Denver, after Dentist Irvin R. Bertram told police that someone had stolen $60 from his safe, he received the money in a letter that said: "I am not a thief; thanks for the loan, pal. Next time see that your safe is locked...
...Professor Tony Curtis is kissing a girl student. An unstable element, his wife, Janet Leigh, enters the lab and explodes. Janet promptly informs the errant Tony that he has defiled their five-year marriage and that she is heading for Reno to be decontaminated. Poor Tony begs his old pal, Dean Martin, a TV writer, to cook up an alibi to placate Janet. Dean's idea: Tony is really an undercover FBI man, and the girl he kissed is an enemy agent spying on a secret Government project at Columbia...
Like Enemy, Tigers celebrates oddballs Author King has known. The title itself comes from a Zen Buddhist pal who always uttered "his senseless little orison" on leaving King's apartment. After three years, King exploded, "What is the meaning of this idiot prayer?" "Well," said the hurt friend, "have you been bothered by any tigers lately...
...paid for the 1958 remodeling of his six-room Harlem apartment? Cried Jack: "I haven't a damn thing to say about it, and you get the hell out of here." But a week later Jack admitted that Real Estate Operator Sidney J. Ungar, a longtime pal and Tammany Democrat, had picked up the $4,400 tab. It was not a gift. Jack insisted, merely a friendly loan without note or collateral. But it just so happened that while Ungar was paying to have Jack's bedroom painted orchid pink, he was also seeking city approval...
...cigarette manufacturers are still worried that a new cancer scare might topple the impressive sales statistics. Seeking to hedge their bets, the tobacco makers have been searching for ways to diversify. Last week Philip Morris Inc. announced that it would purchase A.S.R. Products Corp. (makers of Gem and Pal razors and blades) for $22.5 million. The deal would mark the first move by a major U.S. cigarette manufacturer to go into a new consumer field. Said Philip Morris President, Joseph F. Cullman III: "I believe that A.S.R. represents a nucleus to which could be added a number of other consumer...