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Candy-Coated Chuckle. Many of the boys prop up their fan appeal with wholesale giveaway of wristwatches, electric blankets, home freezers and sports shirts. Standouts in this field are Art Linkletter and his House Party, Welcome Travelers' Tommy Bartlett (noted as the possessor of the "candy-coated chuckle"), and Johnny Dugan of Breakfast in Hollywood, which last week was dropped from TV because of lack of sponsors...
This unique relationship was laid down in a treaty dating back to the 1903 revolution which freed Panama from Colombia. Panama remained possessor and theoretical sovereign of the Zone, but the U.S. got those "rights, power and authority" which it "would possess and exercise if it were the sovereign," in exchange for $10 million down and $250,000 a year (raised to $430,000 in 1936. when the U.S. went off the gold standard...
...reasoning behind Ottaviani's view is an old and deeply rutted road in Catholic polity. God. the reasoning holds, gave mankind the truth once and for all in Jesus Christ; the Roman Catholic Church was established by Christ as the single possessor of that complete truth. It is wrong, then, for the possessor of the truth, whether an individual or a group, to foster the promulgation of error, or to permit it, except for strong reasons, when it has the clear power to prevent it. Any non-Catholic religion, it argues, is error. Therefore a Catholic government...
...groaned, Dilbert dived giddily out of the blue until his wing ripped off, ground-looped, stalled, spun and smashed his protesting plane at every opportunity. By the time the war was over, Dilbert was as much a part of the Navy as battleship grey, and his creator the proud possessor of a Legion of Merit...
Stocky, sharp-faced Journalist Paik Chung Muk, 38, is foreign-educated (Japan and Germany) and possessor of a biting intellectual intensity. Said he: "I read every work Harold Laski wrote. I worshiped him for years. Then I realized I was wrong. Now I am back on more solid ground." What had wrought the change? Paik downed the equivalent of half a jigger of Four Roses whisky from a cracked porcelain cup, chased it with a handful of warm pine nuts, and went on: "Many of my former friends are now with the Communists in the north. I almost went with...