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...Fried Computers. So far, at least, the Carr formula seems to work. Tonka Toys, which he picked up for about $14 a share a year ago, is now being quoted at twice that amount. Another winner, Kentucky Fried Chicken, was acquired by the fund at about $7 per share; it is now selling in the $50s. "We took a lot of ribbing, especially from the East Coast, for adding something called Kentucky Fried Chicken to our portfolio," says Carr. "Had it been called Kentucky Fried Computers it would probably be selling now for 180 times earnings...
...JANET TONKA Atlanta...
...with sweet and sour irony the ways of the colony (291,000) of expatriate Indians who live in Trinidad. What counts is not the plot but the flavor of their slap-happy lingo and picaresque customs, and it all ought to be as much fun as a barrel of tonka beans in Tobago sauce. But Naipaul's House, though built of excellent exotic materials, sags badly; 'economy, style, and a less elastic blueprint would have done wonders...
...Mineo, star of Walt Disney's motion picture, Tonka, called Harvard CRIMSON editors "idiots" for naming him the worst actor of 1959. Quoted in Variety, he said, "Saying that Tonka, where I played an Indian boy in love with a horse, was the worst performance of the year shows no signs of constructive criticism and shows a lack of intelligence and is just not nice these people are just not nice." He added that he would never buy a newspaper put out by "these idiots...
...name with that of the CRIMSON, is the group which actually made the award. Jeremy J. Johnston '61, former Narthex of the Lampoon, said, "I was the one who nominated him for that award. He actually was the worst actor. But the shouldn't have felt badly, we named Tonka the worst horse...