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Such talks soon made Pamela a public figure, ripe for network display on the Jack Paar show. Her new career seems assured as long as the talk fad continues. Says Oscar Levant, the top word slinger of them all: "Pamela, I think you've finally found your niche-just this side of vulgarity...
Keep Moving. Harry Belafonte has been out from under the hammer for a long time, but he pushes on with some of the same fierce drive of the kid in the subway, the hash slinger in the window, the misplaced pop crooner in the jazz dives. His capacity for working over a performance or a recording is legendary. When things are going right, he has been known to record all night, until, as Songwriter Lord Burgess says, "you expect his liver to come up with the next note...
Clocks & Targets. The modern gun-slinger draws against the clock instead of the marshal, fires paraffin-loaded shells that would make the bad hombres of yesteryear laugh themselves sick. Before making the draw, he must keep his hand on a button four inches from the holster. When his hand leaves the button, the clock starts running. The sound of the shot stops the clock. The Colorado Frontier Gunslingers' President Jim Dillon, a Denver butcher who likes to wear Western clothes under his meatcutter's apron, has been timed at a flashy .12 sec. In other contests, contestants...
...piece clicked harmlessly, and Reddick leaped behind a nearby fire truck. "Look, buddy," he shouted, "there's enough cops here to kill you before you can move. Why don't you act sensible?" Still clutching his camera, Reddick sweet-talked his way over to the gun slinger, grabbed his shooting hand as a cop leaped on the man from behind...
...anti-Trujillo party, stepped off the elevator on the third floor of a downtown Mexico City office building. From the staircase a voice called "Martínez Garcia." Martnez turned and caught a bullet full in the face. The gunman, thought to be a professional Cuban gun slinger, grabbed Martnez' briefcase, then scuttled from the building undetected. Only in one detail did the shooting vary from the pattern: the bullet ripped through Martnez' cheek and neck, missing a vital spot, and the Trujillo critic will probably live...