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...Beach (Universal). "Come away with me to Los Angeles!" the wealthy widow (Judith Evelyn) implores. Her hands wander idly over the alluring mass of rented muscle that lies sprawled upon her divan. Alas, no cash, no mash. To make ends meet, Jeff Chandler has hired out as a sex shill to a couple of confidence gamesters at a California seashore resort, and when the lady starts pinching pennies. Jeff stops pinching her. He just picks up his muscles and walks out. That same night the lady dies. "I'm sorry," says Jeff, and waits a full 24 hours -whether...
...Yorker, lined up a cameraman and a producer-the Mirror's former assistant news editor, Jim Peck. He called his show Confidential File and set out to find some offbeat stories. He did not have to search far. His first show exposed the B-girl (barroom shill) racket in Los Angeles. Since then Coates has run programs on a homosexual (who freely showed his face on the program and was fired from his job the next day), shoplifters in action, a narcotics addict, a hypnotized woman, singing Brahms's Lullaby, giving birth to a baby...
That was in 1936. Namatjira learned so fast that within a few months he had sold his first watercolor. Price: five shill ings. By 1945 his pictures were so much in demand that 43 watercolors in a Sydney show were sold in 20 minutes, for nearly...
...Horatio Alger and went right through the Rover Boys.") And as a boy he got the idea that he would like to be a professional talker. "I dreamed about my name on an office door," he recalls. "Ted Husing, Commentator." After batting around in a dozen jobs, from carnival shill to real estate, Ted saw his dream come true. In 1924 he was hired as one of WJZ's first full-time announcers. He has been talking ever since...
...sharp," he revealed, is one skilled in playing pin-ball machines; "to merkle" is to be jubilant at your own misfortune, and "shill-shocked" refers to one who is conscience-bound not to put slugs in a juke...