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Last week there were more signs that Eddie Fisher was in at last. Victor had moved him onto its bigger-selling black label. Outside Broadway's huge Paramount Theater, the bobby-soxers were gathering to throb when their new boy does his stuff (five shows a day for $1,000 a week). With movie, television and nightclub bids rolling in, big-voiced little (130 Ibs.) Eddie Fisher seemed to have his big chance firmly in hand...
...Stars & Stripes. But the sump pumps began to throb. On the floor of the House, Mississippi's old Dixie Demagogue John Rankin (D.), leader of many another Treasury raid in the name of the nation's veterans, led this raid with customary eagerness and cunning. He had wangled the bill out of committee. "Passage will do much to relieve a real need," he declaimed. Members fell over one another rushing to the well to add their voices. Said Massachusetts' motherly Republican Edith Nourse Rogers: to turn the bill down would be "a very cruel thing." Pennsylvania...
...clapboard cottage nine miles southeast of Ottawa, Mrs. Lester Kipp was cooking breakfast one morning last week when something about the throb of a nearby aircraft made her look up at the sky through the kitchen window. She was just in time to see a plane explode in the air over a neighbor's barn, then crash in a great ball of orange flame in a nearby field. "Lester," cried Mrs. Kipp to her husband, "go help the people...
...guns. When silence fell, Craig began shooting again. Daring policemen ran up, threw flares and gasoline through downstairs windows. Yellow flames began to billow through the house. Fire trucks shot sledging streams of water into the upper windows. But amid the yells, the crackle of fire, and the throb of pumps the cops could hear Craig screaming: "You want me-come...
...outdoor theater, Actress Anderson had to howl down the throb of low-flying planes for an unsegregated audience of 10,000, probably the largest ever to see Medea. Total receipts, for seats in camp chairs or on the grassy slopes: more than $16,000. Six blocks away, the National, still obstinately grinding out minor movies and losing money, was half empty...