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Married. June Allyson, 53, pert, husky-voiced TV, stage and screen star (The Glenn Miller Story, Forty Carats); and David Ashrow, 55, a Ventura, Calif, dentist; both for the third time (Allyson's first husband was Actor Dick Powell); in Palm Springs, Calif...
...since Herman Melville pondered the whiteness of Moby Dick has a region of the spectrum been subjected to such eclectic scrutiny. Gass hoards azure words and holds them up to the light: "Blue poplar. Blue palm ... the blue lucy is a healing plant. Blue John is skim milk. Blue backs are Confederate bills. Blue bellies are yankee boys." He squints at past authorities on physics (Democritus, Aristotle, Galen), the bet- ter to glimpse the essence of this protean color in the corner of an eye. The mystery remains, more mysterious because Gass so thoroughly exposes its complexities. Yet the humanist...
Hots dogs are long, lousy and cost 85 cents. Nice people--who look like Disneyland guides--run around with megaphones trying to palm off lost little boys and girls. They're nice, and they're definitely up with people-people...
...ugly face, out there on Michigan Avenue tonight. We're taking a head count at the lot, and don't try to leave before Carter speaks because Tommy will be at the lot." The captain smiled, exposing tobacco-stained dentures as he banged his fist on his fleshy palm...
...flick. Titled Airport 77, the movie features Jimmy Stewart as a millionaire art collector, Bellewood as his daughter and the obligatory lineup of golden Hollywood oldies, including Olivia de Havilland and Joseph Cotten. In this one, Stewart & Co. jet off with their art treasures on a jumbo junket to Palm Beach, only to learn that thieves have put sleep gas in the 747's ventilation system. When the big snooze hits, the big plane alights on a watery sand bar. "There's nothin' new about 'em," says Stewart of such disaster dramas. "Been the same since...