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...Minister of Marine, Air Minister. His chief hold on the King is a little secret between them: the King, who is always hard up, signed a decree paying himself his salary for the years of his exile, and the King knows that if Little John gets mad he will spill the story to the country...
...that Procter & Gamble dislikes rhyming entries. Most National Contesters submit many entries to each contest through friends all over the country, give 10% of their winnings to the pal in whose territory and name the contest is won. Wise contestants usually send their entries in rather cheap envelopes, sometimes spill a bit of Crisco on the sheet to make the entry look homemade...
...Senate held public hearings on the bill. For five days, nearly 60 businessmen were hustled in & out of the committee room, managed to spill more than 200,000 words of criticism. From their objections the Senators concluded that the average-earnings base of computation should be liberalized. Since the liberalization cut the probable yield this year from $225,000,000 (House version) to about $115,000,000, they raised it to $400,000,000 by the simple expedient of upping the normal corporate income-tax rate by 3.1%. During this rewriting, the Treasury took a belatedly renewed interest. Into...
...Daily News. He is the kind of newspaperman who once said of a politician who threatened him with physical violence: "If nothing less than a few buckets of blood from the veins of the editor of the Daily News will quench your thirst for human gore . . . come on and spill it-if you can. Being the party threatened, the editor is entitled to choice of weapons. [The threatener] may arm himself with cowdung and shingles at the respectful distance of 40 paces, standing with his face to the wind in order that spectators may not be offended by his polecat...
...decidedly more worldly and realistic than that of the average boy of his age. He discussed the first stirrings of his young libido with a candor that amazed even the publicity boys. Soon one of the most popular of Hollywood indoor sports was to uncork Mickey Rooney, let him spill his thoughts on forbidden subjects. Wild, baseless rumors began to be gaily whispered around that made Master Mickey look like Hollywood's leading roue. His fresh-guy impersonations on the screen contributed their...