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...views of the West Coast. No one in movies is entirely safe from the heavy-heavy that Parsons, Hopper, Graham and other big-shot commentators hang constantly over Hollywood heads. Through her syndicated column for the North American Newspaper Alliance, Sheilah also tattles to 11 million ordinary readers, who pore over her paragraphs for entertainment, rather than as a tip to business strategy...
...customers who pore over the catalogue have changed as much as the ads. Now city folk account for 64% of Sears' mail-order sales, and the company runs a 24-hour telephone service in four cities to take orders...
...says, "is too big; we lose people in it." Wandering through the lyrical pages of Ghost and Flesh is a variety of lost and lonely souls, including such town oddities as "Old Mrs. Woman," whom nobody loved because she was too fat, "Little Pigeon," an aging loony, and "Pore Perrie," who died from grief because her adopted son did not love her. They flit through the book more ghost than flesh...
...camera caught Miss McCormick -who appears to be a rather tall gal-in the act of ramming her snickersnee between the shoulders of an animal called (jokingly?) a bull . . . In Wyoming, such a pore little critter, although admittedly a male, wouldn't be classed as a bull but as a tail-end yearlin'. Lack of size and length of horns denote immaturity. His contours suggest he was dogied while very young. Quite possibly he was a convalescent from aftosa; certainly his home range has had a long dry spell. The carcass must have been quite inferior carne...
...must remember in the months ahead that it is vastly better to prevent a war, if we can, than to win one-and the surest course toward prevention of World War III is through building the might of America."' Charles Wilson obviously felt in every pore of his body that the might could & would be forthcoming...