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Last week, Owens had another scalp on his belt: the fastest rising tune on the hit parade, a soggy, foggy ballad called How Soon? He had written the lyrics five years ago, to a simple tune by Sammy Kaye's arranger, Carroll Lucas. No one paid any attention to it, even when Owens was plugging it on ladies' laps. Then, a year ago, the Reynolds Pen Co. hired Owens to record the Rocket Song, hoping that listeners would be reminded of Rocket Pens. Owens got a chance to slip How Soon? on the other side of the record...
...Strenuous Life. In Reading, Pa., 46-year-old Joseph Yeman did splendidly in a dart game, jumped with joy, hit the ceiling, was taken to the hospital with a torn scalp...
Fire the Boss? But fans and sportwriters who holler for Mack's scalp are wasting their breath; he owns a majority of the club's stock, and has no intention of firing himself. His son Earle is "captain and coach" of the A's, but Connie himself runs the team. When people try to second-guess him, he utters one of his strongest oaths: "Gracious...
...Chicago, "Slapsie Maxie" Rosenbloom, battered ex-light-heavyweight champ, decided that he had been wounded by a hair-treatment ad, and demanded balm. "The Thomas Scalp Specialists," Slapsie charged, had labeled him a "pouty puss" and suggested that he looked that way because they couldn't restore his hair. Further, they had published a picture of him as a contrast to a picture of wavy-haired ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer. Slapsie wanted...
...Moslems use rosaries of 99 beads (for the 99 names of Allah). Conversation strings, with less beads than the religious rosaries, have no religious significance; fingering them is a nervous outlet like smoking, gum chewing, scalp scratching...