Word: stores
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harry Belafonte singing spirituals and with something to appeal to every member of the family. Against this onslaught Steve Allen was forced to do a little of the same kind of thing. Allen offered some big names of his own "to get the customers to walk into the store." Sammy Davis Jr. sang too long and too loud, and Kim Novak fluffed her way through a skit that strained too hard for its laughs. The best part of the Steve Allen show is Steve Allen, an intelligent comedian who has a satiric air, some amusing ideas, a rapid-fire delivery...
...Carola Mandel, Cuba-born beauty and wife of a Chicago department-store executive, broke 300 straight targets to beat three other top women and 14 men in the annual Rebel Open Skeet Shoot all-gauge championship at Jackson, Miss., went on to establish a new women's world record of 387 birds...
Poisonous Education. Another student who went back to Red China detested what he saw there and escaped to Hong Kong, described the agony in store for any who succumb to Peking's blandishments. "The luxurious American President liner carried home our group of youths full of beautiful dreams and boundless enthusiasm," he wrote. "We sang lustily, 'Arise, those who don't want to be slaves.' " But the lusty group was soon told: "Don't consider yourselves returned students who have drunk foreign waters and therefore are special intellectuals . . . You must realize you underwent a longterm...
Gumshoe. In Davenport, Iowa, arrested after he was spotted in a park carrying a high-priced pair of men's sandals, Anthony Ortiz explained to police: "I happened to fall through a department-store window and the sandals somehow became attached...
...Home. In Stanthorpe, Queensland, Australia, after confessing to the burglary of a jewelry store, Raymond Riley Cox, 24, was admitted to bail by the police court when he explained that his own house had been robbed in his absence and he wanted to "return to see what had been stolen...