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Spit & Polish. In Dublin, Ga., Shoeshine Boy Charlie Williams was arrested for giving away a slug of moonshine whisky with every shine...
...Ascot costs only ?10 (?7 for women), but for two centuries British horse-lovers have had more trouble getting in than a fishmonger's daughter trying to marry the Prince of Wales. A man needed more than the cash and the proper clothes; his social background had to shine pure and proud under the fierce scrutiny of the Duke of Norfolk and his committee of twelve inquisitors. Ever since Ascot was founded by Queen Anne in 1711, court rules have governed admission to the royal enclosure. And since Britain's Sovereign heads the Church of England (which frowns...
Furthermore, says Schwerin, "TV is not an advantageous medium for every type of product ... It is easy to show that a shoe polish will shine shoes, but how can you show that a pill will give relief?" Many a TV ad fails, says he, because admen are "college men ... not in rapport with the people they are communicating...
Being an arena theatre, the Tufts playhouse offers little chance for the show's technicians to shine. They didn't but there were lighting, scenery, costumes and the like--all, again, competent...
...Warner once explained that Ernie Nevers was a greater player than Thorpe because Nevers never stopped trying-rain or shine. Pop probably meant what he said, but he loved Thorpe because the old Indian shared his own uncomplicated love for football. Until the day he died, in Palo Alto last week, at 83, Pop never forgot Thorpe's excuse for failing to break up an opponent's pass: "It looked so pretty." Pop understood...