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...record take in Australia, this shambling comedy (directed by Peter Faiman) filched $8 million its first U.S. weekend. Hogan is already familiar to TV viewers as the roguish spokesman for Australian tourism. Now, flashing his smile and a brisk "G'day" to Manhattan's snobs and pimps, he could parlay Dundee into a network sitcom. Let's see, he's adopted by four Harlem grannies...
Getty's genius was for making and holding on to money. He began as a wildcatter in the Oklahoma oil fields with a stake from his oilman father George F. Getty. By buying leases cheap, J. Paul was able to parlay his luck into a million dollars by the time he was 23. With dung-beetle persistence he then set out to accumulate the billion dollars that earned him FORTUNE magazine's title, Richest Man in America. That was in 1957, more than five years after Getty had abandoned the U.S. for a nomadic life in European hotels. He said...
...waiting room of the airport in Hibbing, Minn., Jim Shaw drops a quarter into a newspaper machine and gets back 30 cents. "I'm on a roll," he declares, and begins planning how to parlay his luck into a gambling empire over the next four days...
...Crimson can parlay its of brilliance into more play, the smooth-running machine will continue to between Harvard and the Ivy title in April...
Three of these stories first appeared in Playboy and two others ran in Esquire; the remainder made their debuts in quarterlies or little magazines. That parlay of the slick and scholarly is unusual, particularly for a beginning writer. Odder still, only a peek at the copyright page can confirm just which stories reached the mass or middling audiences; Easy in the Islands is a whole unified by consistent parts. Shacochis, 33, grew up in Virginia and earned a B.A. in journalism and an M.A. in English at the University of Missouri, where he now serves as a visiting writer...