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...sings, she dances, she is an expert ventriloquist and a hypnotic spieler of commercials, she had her first book (The Shari Lewis Puppet Book) published last week; at the age of 24, she makes more than $75,000 a year, and children write her letters: "My mother says I have to cat spinach if I'm going to grow up as big as you. Please stand up so I can see how much I have...
...there are certain domestic jobs he doesn't like to do. If he can afford it, he wants slaves to do them." With their new, oil-born wealth, the minister went on, many Arabs can now afford this luxury, and many procurers in the French Sudan, Ubangi-shari. Chad, the Cameroons and some British territories are ready and willing to satisfy their needs on "the ebony market" at prices ranging from $1,150 to a paltry $570 per slave (women usually sell for slightly more than men). La Graviére's charges and the evidence which supported...
...Century-Fox) is a movie of and for the family. It has just about everything, including Technicolor, that a family movie should have: a devoted father (Dan Dailey) who can sing & dance, a doting mother (Anne Baxter) who can dance and act, and a sprightly moppet of a daughter (Shari Robinson) who, like most Hollywood prodigies, can do almost everything except the two-and-a-half somersault on a flying trapeze...
...Rashid Shari in Bagdad, a barefoot urchin cries his wares: Al Mukhtar Min Reader's Digest. Sales are brisk. He will be sold out the second day. His success is another sensation of the sensationally successful U.S. Reader's Digest (domestic circ. 8,000,000): a skyrocketing demand for its Arabic edition...
...zealot for continuing the fight. After he had pointed out that Equatorial Africa depends for its livelihood on the British-controlled coastline, after he had told the inhabitants what would happen to their economy if they refused, one by one the five colonies (Cameroun, Chad, Gabon, Middle Congo, Ubangi-Shari) voted to put themselves under De Gaulle without reservations. Even so the old pro-Vichy governor at Brazzaville had to be wrapped in a blanket and deposited across the border in Belgian...