Word: shoeing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team Bing Crosby with a group of lank-haired backup musicians in a collection of rock and folk hits-for examples, the Beatles' Hey Jude and Judy Collins' Both Sides Now. Meantime, Amos Productions continues to expand in other directions: independent producing, recording-studio engineering and shoe repair. Shoe repair? It seems that Bowen's father had a shop in Santa Barbara that was not doing well, so Bowen bought it out. With some of the royalties from Jimmy's first record hit, his father, once Dumas' police chief, bought a dairy farm in Missouri...
...Welcome. At 31, Bowen could well afford to subsidize a whole chain of shoe-repair shops. He and his wife, Singer Keely Smith, receive about 100 business and social visitors a week at their twelve-room North Hollywood house, which has a big black-and-orange piano in the poolroom, a private studio and a swimming pool out back, and a brass plaque on the front door that says: "Our house is open to sunshine, friends, guests...
Singles veterans are beginning to form judgments: "The thing about the Borscht Belt-Grossinger's, the Concord-that sort of thing," says a Bloomingdale's shoe salesman, "is that all those broads go up there with a chip on their shoulder, ready to check out the first time they get a soft egg. But on a cruise-who's to check...
...rummy, as played in Hollywood, is not always a gentleman's game. Even so, the games at the Friars' Club over a ten-month period during 1962 and 1963 were something out of the ordinary. Camera Industrialist Theodore Brislcin, for example, lost $220,000, Shoe Millionaire Harry Karl dropped $80,-000, and such cool hands as Phil Silvers, Zeppo Marx and Tony Martin lost heavily. An investigation by the FBI followed, and last week five players in the games (two real estate developers, an art collector, an investor and a professional card shark) were found guilty...
...Kennedy brother-in-law categorically disclaims interest. There are few Maryland Democrats who can honestly do the same. House Majority Leader Tom Lowe, for instance, is a close friend of Mandel's, but admits: "If Marvin falls on his face, he'll have a size-ten shoe-mine-between his shoulder blades...