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Last November Petersen and Medley let fellow hot-rodders have a preview of Saturday Night Drag Race over the loudspeakers at the Paradise Mesa Drag Strip in San Diego, and the rodders "got all shook up." Consensus: "Man, that really comes on like a bomb," "Greatest invention since the wheel," "Real catbird," etc. Last week, as a result, record counters across the nation began filling up with material for a new musical mania...
Davies' upsetting feat, in what amounted to a splashy preview of the Olympic tryouts, was typical of the meet. Though Davies will swim for Australia in the Olympics, the U.S. could gain considerable solace from other upsets and sparkling times. Among them...
...second wedding, Cinemactress Elizabeth ("I have a woman's body and a child's emotions") Taylor flew from Hollywood to London to marry 39-year-old British Actor Michael Wilding. Caught between planes in Manhattan she flashed her violet-blue eyes and gave the press a bubbly preview of a bride's bliss: "Michael is a mere child at heart. I think everything about him is wonderful. I adore...
...Sneak Preview. In Halifax, N.S., constables nabbed Escaped Prisoner Eric Topple in the Armview Theater while he was watching a showing of They Got Me Covered...
When Collier's devoted a whole issue to defeating Russia, in its own preview of World War III ten weeks ago, it thought it had hit a journalistic jackpot. Collier's (circ. 3,150,000) sold an extra 500,000 copies (TIME, Oct. 29) and planned to cash in further by fighting "The War We Do Not Want" all over again in book form. By last week, the jackpot began to turn out wooden nickels. Simon & Schuster, which had contracted to publish the book, dropped the project. Reason: three of Collier's star "correspondents...