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Foxy transports Broadwayites to an antic, 1890s Yukon, where all the fool's gold is stashed in the pouches under Bert Lahr's eyes. When Lahr crosses those eyes, the showdown is eyeball-to-eyeball. When he rolls them deliriously around the socket rims, he looks like a pixilated squirrel who has forgotten where last summer's nuts are buried...
...city's able new school building boss, Eugene E. Hult, recently ordered a half-built $2,500,000 Queens school to be partly dismantled because of weak concrete. Hult also publicized the quaint fact that school custodians, who get lump-sum maintenance funds and are allowed to socket unspent money, have been geting rich in the process. Bushwick High's D. Paul Bishop reportedly got $53,000 ast year, topping Gross's salary by $13,000 and the mayor's by $3,000. The word is that the next overspending to be exposed is on chartered...
...brow ridge, and was married to a sledgehammer lower jaw . . . timidity grafted to courage, sensitiveness to violence, and an abstract mind to muddleheaded mysticism." Kelen's subject: Rudolf Hess. Other notable Kelen portraits: » John Foster Dulles: "His eyes blinked intermittently like an electric bulb loose in its socket, and he made sucking motions with his mouth as if chewing thumbtacks." » Russia's Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko: "Bulbous nose, dolorous eyes, tight lips . . . like a punchinello whose feelings have been wounded." » Adlai Stevenson: "The round head of a plump, warmhearted, paternal grandpa ... a man who laughs...
...over Hiroshima is contemporary with the imprisonment of Galileo, and where, for example, Nero might fiddle while Chicago burns. The depth he contemplates is the inexhaustible profundity of human cruelty. A man's hands are slashed and filled with salt, another's leg is wrenched from its socket by a driven team of horses...
Electric typewriters are steadily taking a bigger share of the typewriter market, but none of them can match the unusual trick of the new Smith-Corona portable, introduced last week; it can keep right on typing after its cord is pulled out of the socket. The source of its cordless energy is a compact, efficient power supply that has excited the inventive brain of U.S. industry: the nickel-cadmium battery. This versatile product can be recharged in an ordinary electric socket, can be made tiny enough to power a hearing aid, and is good for a total life of three...