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...wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes its stork deliveries not swoops from the housetops but road-rumbling, door-banging trips by United Parcel...
...household financial advice in an effort to attract the housewife's savings dollar. Beyond that, bankers, who once contented themselves with all- purpose savings accounts, are luring millions in new funds with such special ideas as Christmas funds, auto accounts, hobby accounts, rainy-day accounts, educational accounts, even special "stork" accounts...
...Wrong Man (Warner). When the true story of Manny Balestrero was printed in the newspapers a few years ago, it made a strange and haunting tale. On the afternoon of Jan. 13, 1953, Balestrero, an $85-a-week bass player at Manhattan's crusty, upper-crust Stork Club, went to the office of a Long Island insurance company to raise a small loan on his wife's policy. The next evening he was arrested and "positively identified" by two of the insurance company's employees as the man who months earlier had robbed the office at gunpoint...
...beautiful 20-year friendship, in which waspish Gossipist Walter Winchell played Damon to the Pythias of Manhattan Saloonkeeper Sherman Billingsley, had gone pffft, according to Winchell. The rift began, bleated keyhole journalism's grand old man, when ex-Bootlegger-Speakeasier Billingsley, whose flossy Stork Club got much of its floss from Winchell's ceaseless plugs, spatted with Winchell over a pack of cigarettes. The upshot was earthshaking, as Walter wailed last week: "At one time he thought I was a wonderful guy. I haven't been in the Stork in seven or eight weeks...
Then a small, sincere bird-keeper asked, "Mr. Capp, do you think a bird could win the presidential election--say a stork-like bird...