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...acre estate of Gentleman Farmer Hubert Phipps, the Kennedys bought 39 acres for $26,000-a bargain by local standards. The one-story home, built on a concrete slab, will have seven bedrooms, 5½ baths and will cost an estimated $70,000. There will be no swimming pool. Instead, the Kennedys have dug out an acre and a half for a man-made lake, and will stock it with bass, perch and bluegills...
...suety that on a warm day the cooler is the only place he can keep his body heat down. In comes one of his hoods to report a botched heist. Augie pulls a wicked knife, slams the hood against a meathook, and threatens to make him look like a slab of Grade A Prime. A woman in pink slacks, straw hat and cowboy boots interrupts. "Peter, darling," she husks, "hold the knife this way. And make sure we see that sweet meathook...
This well-chilled slab of sadism occurs in a forthcoming scene in The Untouchables. The Lucrezia Borgia in boots is familiar to middle-aging movie fans as the tough-kitten, been-around blonde (sometimes brunette) of several dozen B films and several A's. To the cast of The Untouchables, she is an A-plus director. Her name? Ida Lupino...
Double, no, treble the guard by his slab To keep Stalin from rising, and with Stalin the past...
...squared-off lines, knife edges and wide rear pillars. (At Cobo Hall, Ford needled its rivals for their unabashed plagiarism with signs declaring that Ford has "the roof that tops them all.") A more subtle piracy from Ford is the copying of the Lincoln Continental's smooth slab sides by Buick. Oldsmobile and Pontiac. Chrysler, too, is expected to follow this trend next year, now that the 1961 Continental's designer, Elwood Engel, has been lured away to be Chrysler's styling chief...