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...tried the dry-cleaning business and went broke again. Back in Los Angeles, he opened a small tailor shop and was almost starving when he offered to make some uniforms for Tex Williams' cowboy band. Then Tex went on the radio coast to coast and gave Nudie a plug, and the little tailor was on his way to his first ulcer and his first...
...none of Director Capra's sharp, knowing touches about people really save this one-act vignette from being lost for 120 minutes on the wide screen. To beef it all up, he has loaded it with unconscionable plugs for the Miami Beach shoreline, an expensive hotel, fashion models, flamingos and dog races. But not even Capra could plug all the holes...
...news: the native mother who accused a neighbor of doing in her youngest son; a warning that the dangers of capturing Papuan black snakes far outweigh their medicinal value. Periodically, readers are brought up to date on population losses caused by wild boars, crocodiles, sharks and cannibals. Post advertisers plug canned butter, rainwater tanks, ceiling fans, copra boats and soap, sometimes in pidgin English: "Altaim waswas long sop new bilong im Palmolive...
...years; not even any female forecasters. "Atlantic is in the service business, and in our service stations the customers deal with men," said Ad Director Dick Borden. "Naturally," he argued, in a massive non sequitur, "they would prefer to see men weathercasters on television." So Atlantic proposes to plug a new style: accurate, unadorned reporting. From now on, the company's meteorological M.C.s will show fog on their charts as = , drizzle will be , rain ∙, snow ∙, showers ∇, hail ∆, lightning ∠, thunderstorms β, hurricanes ∮. Using such symbols, weather prophets may or may not convince the public...
Physician Hawley offered this explanation: nowadays, nearly everybody has insurance to cover the basic cost of surgery, and every insured patient is a paying patient. At the Manhattan dinner where Hawley spoke, Dr. David M. Heyman got in a plug for systems such as the Health Insurance Plan of Greater New York, of which he is honorary board chairman. Under its group practice, said Dr. Heyman, doctors receive no extra fees for operations-so "there's no incentive for unnecessary surgery...