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Will You Love Me Tomorrow (The Shirelles; Scepter). A nighttime lament by a new female quartet that throbs its sentiments with rough tenderness. That "love light in your eyes'" may not survive the dawn, but it has booted the Shirelles to the top of the pop charts...
...accuser: the emergency curator of the Egyptian Museum, carrying out the museum's first inventory in some 30 years, a belated measure instituted after the recent discovery that some 25,000 national treasures, worth a king's ransom, have disappeared. A prime item, whereabouts unknown: the jeweled scepter of Egypt's King Tutankhamen (14th century B.C.), valued at a cool $3,000,000. Taking his ease in Rome, Farouk murmured: "Let them say what they will. These are things that do not interest kings, but only lawyers...
...leader only in title, who in fact, needs someone else to lead him." Said the Daily Telegraph: "President Eisenhower is, alas, no longer robust, and the West can provide no substitute for an active and authoritative American Secretary of State." Said the Daily Express: LEADERSHIP LIES LIKE A DISCARDED SCEPTER IN AMERICA TODAY...
...throne room at Columbia Pictures resounded with the whoosh of an outsized riding crop swung in anger. Scepter in hand, striding before two rows of Oscars at stiff attention behind his vast desk, Columbia's stubby and balding Boss Harry Cohn fumed with the king-sized wrath of the last Hollywood despot who still runs the studio he built. The year was 1953, the object of his wrath Rita Hayworth, Columbia's reigning love goddess; Rita had flounced out and left the studio with a costly stack of properties bought just for her. Before Cohn's desk...
...Jacob had some decided ideas on the subject. "Usually," he said, "Christ in majesty is shown with a crown and scepter. I rejected that. I rejected the conventional symbols, the stigmata, the crown of thorns. I told them I would not use them. I wanted to make him divine, but human." The cathedral authorities agreed...