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...word fun becomes more and more an adjective, the comic is also spilling over into the commercials; where once the pitchman raved supreme, he now adds a light or whimsical touch to ads-in Buster Keaton's Ford-truck plugs, for example, or Bert Lahr's potato-chip commercials and Jack Gilford's Cracker Jack spiels. The comedians soften the sale-and they frequently outshine the programs...
...central issue: prices advanced 5% last year, and Socialists are mad because the conservative People's Party favors a temporary tax increase. In a rare show of opposition in Portugal, the dictatorial government of Antonio Salazar was openly criticized in newspapers last week because living costs are climbing; potato prices are up from 60 a sack to 120 in a year, and other food tags are rising...
...compete physically, so he decided to lead with his right: he became a stenographer. The day before he was to compete in a worldwide shorthand contest, he broke an index finger. He worked his way around the injury by jamming his pen through a potato, then took dictation while holding the potato. At the age of 18, he was pronounced, potato and all, the best stenographer alive. Bernard Baruch took him on as a personal secretary, and William Rosenberg...
Barbara Barrie was the Cannes Film Festival Best Actress of 1964 for One Potato, Two Potato, and hasn't played much comedy. But she takes to it awfully well. Hers is the only character that is both believable and funny, even if on paper it might be neither...
...completely. In a seven minute span Gene Dressler twice missed five-foot jump shots on the fast breaks. Barry Williams and Charlie McGonaugie threw the ball away, and John Scott was called for travelling. As Cornell moved ten points ahead, Harvard started passing the ball around like a hot potato. Nobody wanted to shoot, and the Crimson passed up good shots. With 10:20 to play Cornell led, 70 to 57, and Harvard threatened again...