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...Sarah, the straight man, appeared on court looking for Pauline, who then charged out in a man's size 44 trunks (she takes a woman's size 12), a sweater dyed a "nauseating orange," only one shoe, and a raincap flopping on her red hair. Her racket was warped to about the shape of a spoon. The slapstick tennis lesson began...
Businessman. Bugsy went right to work. He moved in on the gambling at Redondo Beach, took a cut of the profits at the Agua Caliente race track, muscled in on the numbers racket, cut himself a slice of the offshore gambling fleet and the Culver City dog track...
Actually, the food shipments seemed to spring from more human, less political, motives. One, undoubtedly, was a little international racket which encouraged individual Greeks to send the parcels as gestures of gratitude for U.S. aid, thus avoiding Greek Government restrictions on food exports. The other source was. plain Greeks who (like plain people all over Europe) had always sent the old special delicacies to their emigrant families in the new world. For everyone knew that though America was great and incredibly well fed, it just couldn't produce the kind of salami that brought tears to your eyes...
More than two-thirds of the low income group thought testimonials were a racket. Executives, who possibly saw themselves as potential "men of distinction," were less mistrustful. Most radio commercials, said 57%, were a waste of time. Remarked the committee, in a vast understatement: "Unless some action is taken, consumer opinion of radio commercials is likely to get worse instead of better...
Paralyzing Racket. Though intended primarily for ultrasonics, Inventor White's siren can also produce ordinary, audible sounds. Low in pitch, their power is still enormous. To show what they can do, White adjusts the wheel's speed so that it will generate 800-cycle sound waves -just below the top of a soprano's range...