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...Distressing as it may be to A.T. & T. the sale of offbeat handsets is booming. Two companies in New York City account for most of a fast-moving retail and mail order business in rebuilt foreign antiques and reproductions, equipped with dials and plug-ins to fit a phone company jack (Jacqueline Kennedy has one on a 19th century Victorian table in her White House office). Also popular are American antiques-wood-cabinet wall phones and the stand-up type that went out in the late '30s, known in the telephone trade as "the Eliot Ness." Newest dodge...
...vote, Burleson's group had agreed to support Byrnes's proposal that the second stage of the two-year tax cut could not go into effect unless the net national debt was below $303 billion next July 1. Kennedy took to nationwide radio and TV to plug the tax bill, and Republican Congressmen Byrnes and Tom Curtis of Missouri got free and equal air-waves time to answer. The whole issue then and there became more political than economic...
Comes Thursday evening in Brasilia, barring the gravest of national emergencies, the city empties as if somebody had pulled a plug. Congressmen slip out of the chamber, pick up their tickets at handy airline booths right in the lobby of the Congress building, and rush to catch the 7:30 Electra...
...your July 19 issue, criticizing the film Jason and the Argonauts, you state: "And they have dreamed up monsters Jason never saw, including a steam-powered King Kong, built of bronze, with a drain plug in his heel." This monster is genuine and belongs to the myth of the Argonauts. In his well-known The Greek Myths, Robert Graves writes: "The Argonauts reached Crete, where they were prevented from landing by Talos the bronze sentinel, a creation of Hephaestus, who pelted the Argo with rocks, as was his custom. Medea called sweetly to this monster . . . and, while he slept...
Scheduled to go before the cameras soon is a Frank Sinatra Enterprises epic obligingly titled (in return for a Pepsi-Cola national publicity plug) For Those Who Think Young. The stars are Sinatra and Martin-not Frankie and Dean, oddly, but a pair called Nancy and Claudia. Nancy is 23, Claudia 19, and the very thought of their names in lights makes the whole Clan feel...