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...long ago as the summer of 1946, plump, slick-pated Jerry E. Hauff, pastor of the Full Gospel Assemblies in Christ Inc. Church of Van Nuys, Calif., got the word that doomsday was approaching. "Voices from heaven" speaking incoherent foreign tongues had brought it to him. He translated for his congregation and reported that a great storm from the north was going to knock off all mankind-all, that is, who didn't sell their property and flee to the mountains...
Made in Argentina. At the President's side was Dr. Ronald Richter, a plump, Austrian-born physicist (German University of Prague), who has been associated with Argentina's atomic program ever since it was begun all of nine months ago. Through an air force interpreter, the doctor announced in rich Austrian German: "What we have accomplished is strictly Argentine-it is infinitely superior to the system used in the U.S. . . . For some time now, Argentina has known the secret of the hydrogen bomb [but] I have always found a refusal on General Perón's part...
...committed a crime against the U.S.? "I think it's wrong," she admitted. "I've always known it was wrong." She had been talked into the whole sordid affair, she explained, by her husband's sister, Mrs. Rosenberg. Seated before her in court were short, plump Mrs. Rosenberg, her pale, spectacled husband, Julius Rosenberg, and worried-looking Morton Sobell-all three accused of wartime espionage, punishable by the maximum penalty of death...
...What is your secret?" envious Nicaraguans kept asking the two youthful yanquis. Far from having a secret, the yanquis were just amateur cotton growers who had struck it rich with their first crop. Until their own tall, sturdy plants bore plump bolls of ripening cotton, neither of them had even so much as walked through a cotton patch...
...gradually taking over television by night as well as by day, German-born Lilli Palmer, 29, broke most of the rules laid down by TV's other success girls. Vivacious, pun-popping Arlene Francis, with her Blind Date, exploits the callow conversations of college boys and tittering models. Plump, pretty Eloise McElhone employs the standard feminine TV equipment of an indefatigable smile, a capacity for continual astonishment ("Is that so?" "You don't say!"), and the ability to talk endlessly about nothing. Willowy, fashion-plated Maggi McNellis, with Leave It to the Girls, represents the loftiest intellectual flights...