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...tattered saints are fighting. All such beatnik absurdities would not matter if their writings and paintings had some value. But most of the art that Lipton's shaggy sufferers turn out is not better, he admits, than the weekend seascape by the vice president of a spark-plug firm...
...count ran to more than 45,000. Denver had five fulltime boat dealers two years ago; 49 are making a good living today. The boom has also brought with it 10,000 service facilities ashore that range from simple splintered mooring places to multimillion-dollar marinas that offer plug-in water, electric and telephone connections at dockside, nightclubs, marine supply stores and children's playgrounds...
Other stars have leaped onto the bandwagon for more mundane reasons. Why does Rock Hudson, the nation's No. 1 box-office draw, plug safety razors? Says a friend: "Naturally, because he can use the dough." Fred MacMurray and Wife June Haver lent their faces to American Gas for a $6,000 kitchen, plus air conditioning for their ranch. Claims one bubbly member of Ad Row: "We can give very high-style publicity. Now we are selecting stars, not soliciting them...
...hours later, notes in hand, and headed for his classroom. For 50 minutes Van Allen lectured to Iowa undergraduates on the theory of transformers, then quipped: "All this is very good in theory, but in practice, you take a piece of iron, wind a wire around it, then plug the wire in. The core gets hot, the wires smoke, and the fuse blows. So you see, there are practical limitations to theory...
Destry Rides Again (book by Leonard Gershe; music and lyrics by Harold Rome; direction and choreography by Michael Kidd) ups curtain on the Last Chance Saloon with the lady that's known as Frenchy (Dolores Gray) sashaying forward in a red-sequined gown to treat some of her plug-ugly admirers to a song. Within minutes she shoots the hat off one heckler, wraps a whipstalk around the skull of another. Then her saloonkeeper boy friend (Scott Brady) proceeds to give the sheriff an incurable case of lead poisoning. It is obviously high time for law and order...