Word: pocketa
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...world of O. (for Oscar) Roy Chalk, 55, sometimes resembles the pocketa-pocketa dream world of Walter Mitty. Chalk it was who in 1959 unsuccessfully volunteered to take New York City's struggling $6 billion bus and subway system off the city's hands for $615 million. Then there was the Chalk plan to lure New York-Washington commuters away from the trains and airlines with a fleet of seven-passenger limousines equipped with telephones and dictating machines. Currently Chalk is absorbed in an 85-m.p.h. rubber-tired "Superail," similar to monorails. He wants to build one from...
There is enough reality to Chalk's pocketa-pocketa, however, to add up to considerable accomplishment. In the 31 years since he graduated from New York University Law School, London-born Roy Chalk has built up a tidy real estate and transportation empire. This week he launches a publishing chain. Last March Chalk paid $850,000 for an 80% interest in El Diario de Nueva York (circ. 68,000), the largest Spanish newspaper in a city that now has 650,000 Puerto Rican inhabitants. This week he takes over the city's only other Spanish daily, La Prensa...
...sell 100,000 copies a day on the island. In San Juan a newsman observed to Chalk that at the moment all of Puerto Rico's newspapers combined sell only that many. "Well," said Chalk, ''maybe that's a little exaggeration.'' Pocketa-pocketa...
...easy to fool little girls nowadays as it used to be." He was a dreamer who knew the longings of ordinary men-to stuff their wives and put them on the mantelpiece, to bet the old plantation on an uncaught ace, while the paddle wheel goes pocketa-pocketa. He was a bad artist who drew wonderful, lumpy dogs, and was often mistaken for one of them by strangers who had never seen him throw a highball glass...
...wonderful slapstick scene, and Gig Young does very well with a comic style for which he is much beholden to William Holden. But the real star of the show is Emmy. What redblooded moviegoing male will be able to resist the seductive lisp with which she murmurs pocketa. and ever so tenderly, queep? Indeed, what husband will not yearn for a female he can shut up, simply by not asking questions...