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Sherwood Harry Egbert, president of Studebaker-Packard, barreled down the test track at the company's South Bend plant one day last week in a sleek sports coupe, the likes of which no U.S. motorist has ever seen. Still shrouded in deep corporate secrecy, the new car was nonetheless already the talk of Detroit. Christened Avanti (Italian for "Forward"), it is finless, aerodynamically clean, and fast; it may well prove the most talked-of car turned out by any U.S. automaker since Ford Motor Co. introduced its first Thunderbird...
...Shot in the Dark, adapted from a Paris hit, is tres tres sleek and sassy, with Julie Harris starring as a sleep-around maid...
Beneath a sleek, soft-spoken exterior, Harris seethes with an intense drive. "The reason Kennedy and I got along well together during the campaign," he says, "is that we both go all out. He once told somebody, T can't hold back the stops. I have to go flat out, all out.' I feel the same way." Harris' drive has carried him up from a hard-knocks beginning in New Haven, Conn. His father died when he was six, and the bank in which his widowed mother kept her savings went broke. But with pinching...
...time came when Aldous did not feel aldous any more; he felt thomas-henry. And old T. H. Huxley, the novelist's grandfather, was a solemn teacher, not a satirist. The result was that after the aldous Aldous had written Brave New World (a take-off on the sleek horrors of a mass-produced society), the new thomas-henrified Huxley deemed it his duty to map out a utopia for the betterment of the race...
...breaks his fellow shipping clerks' strike, raids his former employer's staff to start his own dress firm, ditches his loyal girl friend for a platinum-pated actress, rooks his partners out of their life savings, and check-bounces the firm into bankruptcy to keep his sleek chick's wrists warm (with bracelets). But most of the time Harry is too homey to be unwholesome. He rushes home to Mama (Lillian Roth), counts on her for cooking, and sweeps her into an Oedipalsy song and dance number called Momma, Momma...