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...original model of Emmons' "Pelvi-phore," a keyed Hungarian táragotó, the uniform worn by a student nurse at Passaic, N.J. General Hospital circa 1897, a star-nosed mole, a palatometer, a telegraph crossarm complete with two insulators, an untitled color print of a steak platter and half the braincase of a fossil herring...
...Herod. As the movie has it: Salome (Rita Hayworth) was just a nice, healthy girl over whom men lost their heads-figuratively rather than literally. And she danced her famous dance of the seven veils not to lure Herod into serving up the Prophet's head on a platter but merely to distract the King while a handsome Roman commander (Stewart Granger), a secret convert to John's Christian teachings, tried to free...
...mouth-on-the-platter idea was disgusting-worse than a cigarette...
Nobody professes to understand why. Disk jockeys' enthusiasm for Oh, Happy Day runs the gamut from torpor to disgust; they announce it with such words as "Here's one everybody is asking for-I don't know why." A Boston platter spinner called it "the worst record I ever heard"; one in Manhattan vowed to eat it if it ever became a hit. "Nobody seems to like it," says Cleveland's McClean, "except the people...
...year in the U.S. Army, including nine months of German occupation duty, Pfc. Vito Farinola, 24, better known in his civilian days as Crooner Vic Damone, was home again to tackle an assignment right down his alley. Following official orders, Vic dropped into a Manhattan recording studio, cut a platter called The Girls Are Marching, a rousing new number which the Defense Department hopes will help recruit 80,00 women...