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...Extravert on percussion instruments: Often required to wait an entire concert just to ping the triangle or thump the bass drum, he develops anxieties. When his moment comes, he flails away with gusto, confident that every eye is upon him. As proprietor of the orchestra's "kitchen," he is belittled because of the limited range of his instruments, envied because he can bang all his frustrations away...
...parents of the youth sought to have the state name Briggs and Briggs, its proprietor and a female sales clerk in a formal criminal complaint, but Cambridge Court Judge Lawrence F. Feloney denied the complaint Wednesday after Briggs and Briggs agreed not to sell the record in the future...
Loves of a Blonde is really, and somewhat schizophrenically, two films, each good in its own right, one social in aspect, one personal. We begin with the social, as the proprietor of a rural factory outside Prague comes to grips with the loneliness of his stranded, barracks-dwelling, all-female employees. A dance is arranged, with lonesome soldiers trucked in from somewhere. A sizeable fraction of the film passes in ironically viewed mating rites. There are scenes of uproarious comedy, as when one lovable idiot of a soldier weighs the righteousness of fidelity to his wife against the pleasure...
Terence soon became known as "Kayo" Hallinan. After tangling with three sailors in 1954, he was made a ward of the juvenile court. After clobbering a ski-lodge proprietor in 1955, he received a suspended three-month sentence. Tried for another assault in 1957, he got a hung jury, settled a damage suit by paying his alleged victim $5,000. Even after he entered San Francisco's Hastings College of Law in 1961, Terence had at least three fights, one of them a melee growing out of a bare-knuckles duel between his brother and another law student...
...Time for Gazing. High flyers in the Continental set are also becoming addicted to the stars. A favorite society astrologer is lissome "Cappy" Badrutt, the California-born wife of the proprietor of the Palace Hotel in St. Moritz, who has done horoscopes for Rita Hayworth, Paris Vogue Editor-in-Chief François de Langlade, the Aga Khan, Mrs. Herbert von Karajan, and Baroness Thyssen. Cappy says that a growing number of businessmen are also interested in the practice, because "in these times of uncertainty, people are groping for an answer...