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...MILLION OIL AID is soon planned for Argentina by U.S. investment group spearheaded by George E. Allen, presidential golf pal. Group plans to extend $170 million in credit to Argentina, will do $300 million worth of drilling and build $320 million worth of pipelines, producing facilities in Argentina. In U.S. group are Atlas
...comic felt at peace with the world, so he decided to call a boyhood pal, now an undertaker in Ohio. "This is Elwood P. Suggins," he said, choosing a phony name and his best rube twang. "My brother passed away Sunday a week, and I wonder if you could do a job." Said the undertaker: "Good God, man, Sunday a week! Where is he?" Replied the comic: "Out on the porch against the lattice. That cold spell that set in kept him harder than a carp. But then that warm spell set in, and he commenced to get pretty fleshy...
...Funny Farm. The origin of such far-out fun can probably be traced back to Winters' paternal grandfather, a delicately balanced bank president given to walking the streets of Dayton, flapping his arms at his pal Orville Wright and screeching: "How's the airplane, Orville?" Johnny's wealthy parents were divorced when he was seven, and his mother moved him to Springfield, Ohio, where he slept in a "brass-rail bed with a dead mouse in the corner." After a World War II tour with the Marines and a nodding acquaintance with college, Johnny entered a Dayton...
...Eliot is quick to admit that he owes his resurgent health and happiness to his copper-haired second wife,* an attractively plump Yorkshire lass with a creamy complexion, who has reminded more than one Eliot fan of Grishkin with her famous "promise of pneumatic bliss." Says a hard-boiled pal: "He's got this mad thing about love. The way he gazes with sheep's eyes at his wife you'd never guess they'd been married nearly two years and seen each other every day before that for seven." Valerie...
Resting rock-like on the twin foundations of hindsight and inevitability, Road to the Stars is pretty dull entertainment. The future is offered as a fantastic but closed book. The invasion of the cosmos isn't as exciting as Walt Disney or George Pal might make it. More interesting is the account of the early struggles of the late Soviet creator (in 1903) of the multiple-stage rocket, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky, a schoolteacher "as modest as he was great." Half-deaf himself, Tsiolkovsky was able to gain no other ears than those of his young students until the October Revolution...