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...instant Ted comes boulevarding into view, through a window, the moviegoer has a sudden reflex to check his wallet. Hair plastered down, three days' growth of beard, sour-looking tropic-whites, smile like an overpolished apple and nasty little eye like a worm in it: Newton is the picture of a man who has made a gin fizzle of his life, and figures to cadge a chaser...
...started with a high pressure area from Alaska, which centered in New England over the weekend, and another high pressure area from the tropic which attracted a low pressure area in their wakes, according to Dr. Charles F. Brook of the Blue Hills Observatory. This low pressure area is responsible for the extreme heat and humidity which have plagued New England this week...
Jitney Beginning. Orville Caesar, a mechanic turned executive, still likes to tinker with machinery in his home workshop in Harrington, Ill. He invented the Tropic-Aire hot-water heater to replace the dangerous and smelly exhaust-pipe system for heating buses, saw it become the standard for passenger cars. The son of a Swedish blacksmith, Caesar went to work in an auto-repair shop in his teens, later started a small bus service. In 1925 he joined forces with the late Eric Wickman, who had been building up a bus system in Minnesota since 1914, when he started with...
Instead of using a behind-the-scenes voice for narration, the producers of Operation Ivy employed Television Actor Reed Hadley, star of Public Defender and Racket Squad, to saunter through the picture in khaki uniform, lighting his pipe, leaning negligently against bulkheads, and standing against the tropic sky. Actor Hadley (who was whisked secretly to the Pacific in 1952 and who was not allowed to let even his wife know where he had been until last week) could hardly be blamed for doing his conscientious best in the role assigned him. But a great deal of his job was devoted...
Married. Henry Miller, 62, onetime Left Bank expatriate turned California recluse, whose sex-obsessed novels (Tropic of Capricorn, Tropic of Cancer), after being banned in the U.S., became avant-garde favorites in France; and Evelyn Byrd McClure, 29, Hollywood artist-actress; each for the third time; in Carmel Highlands, Calif...