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Lorenz remembers standing for six hours on a packed express train that runs between Belgrade and Athens. "We played gin rummy," he said. "One guy was the table--his right hand for the discard pile and his left for drawing...
...couldn't knock me off the top of the pile," Mayor Sullivan said in a victory statement. "The citizens of Cambridge believe in Sullivanism and in Sullivan service," he stated. Alan Steinert, former head of the CCA, led a campaign against "Sullivanism," the mayor said, but the fact that the voters of Cambridge kept him on top of the ticket indicates that hey approve of his regime...
...title role. Pal Joey was a hoofer in the play, and Sinatra does not dance a step in the film, but somehow he crowds the screen with rhythm every time he moves. Furthermore, he is a superb rhythm singer. Tense, rackety, jagged with energy, his rhythms pile up, break apart, flow and jolt with all the jeer and honk and curiously impersonal impulsiveness of rush-hour traffic. And nobody can turn a blue note green the way Frankie can−a green as sour and insolent as a pickle waved beneath the moviegoer's nose...
...waiting room of Calgary airport one 18° morning last week, a stocky, greying man staggered cheerfully under the weight of a pile of enormous, fleece-lined coats. To arriving friends the man said: "Here, you better take this. It might be cold up there." It was. The gathering party's destination, Fort St. John, B.C., lay smothered under snowdrifts 8 ft. high. But to Francis Murray Patrick McMahon, temporary coat-dispenser and full-time oil-and-gas tycoon, a town buried under snow was no problem. Calling for "all the tractors from Dawson creek to the Alaska border...
...husbands," says she. "I don't want to do anything but be with Rex." Still under contract to J. Arthur Rank, for whom she will do three more pictures, Kay is in no particular hurry to go back to Hollywood, is currently letting her hazel eyes scan a pile of play scripts, hoping to discover something that suits her, "so I can keep the same hours as Rex does...