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...There are quite a few shoe shine boys...
...afterglow of the success of last year's Perry Como and Dinah Shore shows, the TV networks are taking a high shine to popular singers in jumbo productions. In fact, the TV season threatens to be, in the phrase of one critic, a case of "the bland leading the bland." TV's Pepsi-Cola girl, Polly Bergen, got mired down in embarrassingly labored exchanges with a shrill, scenery-chewing "panel" of other show folk, and only when she used her high but lilty voice did her seductive talents poke through. The Hit Parade was back (in stunning color...
What does a blacked-out city look like to a modern reconnaissance airplane, or to the computing ego of a guided missile boring down from space? Answer: if viewed with up-to-date infra-red equipment, it stands out like a neon sign. Its smokestacks shine like lighthouses; its highways gleam like long bright lines. Nothing can be securely concealed if it is a few degrees warmer or colder than other things around...
Raising prize cocker spaniels, everyone knew, was Janet Gray's hobby. She filled her kennels with more than 40 purebred cockers, including buff-colored Ch. Carmor's Rise and Shine (price: $5,000), judged Best in Show at Manhattan's 1954 Westminster Kennel Club competition, dogdom's Olympiad. Mrs. Gray worked as business manager of the small Decatur Clinic, about ten miles northeast of Atlanta, and everyone realized that she could not live so luxuriously on a bookkeeper's pay. Her friends agreed that she must be "independently wealthy." Last week they discovered how independent...
...doctors fretted back in Decatur, Margaret met Connecticut Dog Trainer Ted Young Jr., who, for such a good customer, had obligingly responded to a long-distance call and had driven some 630 miles south to pick up her dogs for safekeeping. She kept the most valuable cocker. Rise and Shine; surprisingly, she included Capital Gains among those sent to Connecticut. Bidding the servants farewell, abandoning the furniture vans, Margaret and Sheila Joy drove north to Baltimore, then west to Oklahoma. The FBI put out a nationwide alarm...