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...begging Crooner Perry Como to plug a passel of Lucky lyrics, Floridian Luck anted up $500 of his own savings plus $350 from his real-estate man papa, bought a month's space on a huge (20 ft.-by-60 ft.) billboard near Times Square to make his plea public. Excerpt from Luck's open letter to Como: "I pray that you will give me the chance to meet you and maybe hear you sing one of my numbers." Easygoing Crooner Como gee-whizzed, promised to give Composer Luck's songs a hearing, maybe a warbling...
Nocturne. In Billings, Mont., Perry Whitfield was sentenced to two years for a $1,570 jewelry store robbery, despite his plea that he steals because he is affected by the changing phases of the moon...
...March 19 Press section; although I have no connection with the principals of the "Bridey Murphy" story-except that I am acquainted with Bill Barker-I do know that all means have been taken to prevent the publication of the real name of "Ruth Simmons." TIME disregarded the plea for privacy voiced by Mr. Barker in the Denver Post and, in the very sarcastic manner that seems to have invaded your fine magazine, told the whole story like a schoolboy at a Peeping Tom session...
...Senator) to the job he wants (governor of Texas) was the problem confronting Price Daniel; he feared that the Texans who sent him to the Senate for six years might be peeved if he applied after four years for another position. Daniel attacked his problem with a radio-TV plea that Texas voters make up his mind for him. Last week, in response to his request that Texans tell him what he ought to do, 29,000 of them sent him messages urging him to run for governor. That was mandate enough for Daniel; forthwith, he opened his campaign with...
Legal Detail. In Seattle, Carl Floyd Black was sentenced to 18 months on a burglary charge, despite his plea that he could not be held accountable for stealing a power saw from the Seattle Plywood Co. because he broke into their warehouse to steal a load of copper pipes...