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...built commercial installations in Lebanon and Italy and signed a contract to convert J. Arthur Rank-owned movie houses into bowling alleys in England. A.M.F. this month automated the second bowling alley in Stockholm, will soon build similar facilities in Denmark, Belgium and Australia. With the expensive promotions and plush environments, A.M.F. and Brunswick hope to build bowling overseas up to the scale...
...Highway 17, to see the source of the noise. Most come away convinced that more than one odd critter is loose inside. Station Boss Bill Brennan, 38, a hillbilly-talking Harvard-trained electrical engineer, directs operations in his bathing suit, but he prefers to escape to his plush apartment (separated from the office by a sliding panel operated by a hidden pushbutton). There he can toy with his "bar and his "Play Pretty," a frosted-glass wall behind which colored lights flare and flicker in time with the transmitted music. "On low notes," Brennan explains, "the low part...
...pieties at odds with the vigor of Lincoln's own prose. Cyril Cusack, trying to milk every drop from the "dense and driven" poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Caedmon), lingers with such lip-smacking satisfaction over Hopkins' sprung rhythms, internal rhymes and clashing dissonances-"lush-kept plush-capped sloe"-that the effect is a little like a gold-threaded, jewel-bedecked gown that dazzles the eye but numbs the senses...
...Happy Style. Jonah used to blow his horn open, and no man in the business blew it better. But Jonah's clarion trumpet call sounded too loud over the tinkle of cocktail conversation, and for most of his career he was never able to make it into the plush jazz caves where the money lies. Then in 1955 he had an offer to fill in at The Embers, reluctantly agreed to play with a mute, and quickly evolved the "good, happy style" that has brought the crowds running to him ever since...
Died. Joseph Barbara, 53, host to one of gangland's most baffling conclaves at his plush hilltop home in Apalachin, N.Y.; of a heart attack; in Johnson City, N.Y. Mystery still shrouds Barbara's famed barbecue, where police caught 65 Mafia mobsters carrying among them $300,000 in cash, a combined record of 153 arrests, 74 convictions. An immigrant (1921) from Sicily who was convicted only once (a $5,000 fine for sugar smuggling). Barbara avoided police for 25 years at Apalachin, but after his party he was indicted -with 26 others-for refusing to explain the purpose...