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...cable from Messina, Sicily, signed "Con-de Barcelona" (one of his titles), saying he would be along four days hence. When he arrived, Prendergast found him wearing a sailor's blue dungarees, faded blue canvas sneakers and "for reasons I'll never know, only one sock. I like the man tremendously...
...vain did one search for house Playmates. Two were eventually chosen from the dates present--for dancing ability or something like that. The procedure was similar to the way queens are chosen at any decent high school sock hop. The prizes were different of course. Instead of a factory sealed (or kissed) Elvis record, Playboy pajamas were awarded; the spirit was the same, though...
...also possible for an industry to pay relatively low wages and still contribute heavily, through an abnormally high profit margin. Legal services stand high on Paradise's list because although law firms pay only 90% of the average national wage ($4,705 last year), they sock away high profits. Financial institutions, insurance companies and real estate dealers, who pay only a trifle above the average national wage, are in the same highly profitable boat...
...thing: Rooney. Twenty years of anticlimax have strung hard lines across the famous baby face. With his porky jowls and rathskeller neck and jutting nose. Rooney at 38 resembles an enraged pygmy rhino, a pint-pot Wallace Beery. His talent resembles Beery's, too, in its sock-simple vulgarity, its feisty fecundity. He is one of the great hams of the age, and life seems to have smoked him ripe...
...enters, or looks around or at, or shakes a leg or shouts a line, or exits. And as Silvers' wife, and deserving a bigger role, there is Nancy Walker, who can look wonderfully around or at, or over or through, or can sidle or sock, or be touchingly human. The music's pleasures come in what amusing lines can do along with Silvers in It's Legitimate, with Nancy Dussault in What's New at the Zoo, with Nancy Walker in Adventure. These are like half-hours striking between spells of mere ticktock...