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...dinghy starts to capsize with a full cargo of sweet young things, one tiny mutineer bites him, and he throws a capful of water in her face. When Caron slaps him, he lets her have it too. When Trevor Howard informs him that the island has a hidden treasure-trove of good Scotch whisky, Grant starts pawing the turf like Pavlov's dog. His engaging brand of rough-house finally proves a point that was never seriously in doubt in the first place. Scrub the style and polish off Cary Grant, and what do you find? The real polish...
Died. Harpo Marx, 75, wackiest and most wonderful of the four Marx Brothers, a master of madhouse pantomime in battered plug hat and shocking pink wig, whose endless trove of sight gags (a skirt needs straightening? Whee! Cut it off.) and leering, horn-honking, pinching pursuit of squeaking blondes kept a generation of Americans in helpless laughter-and a thousand comedians trying to top him; following heart surgery; in Hollywood. Behind the idiot grin, Harpo (real name: Adolph) was a witty, gentle soul, married to one woman for life, and the doting father of four adopted children; he was also...
...down to the supermarket. But esthetics have nothing to do with the new trend in the antique trade. Its name is "junk." True, it has to be out-of-the-ordinary junk. But to the expert spotter, every attic and old barn in the U.S. is a potential treasure-trove of salable detritus. The technique is summed up by a roadside secondhand store south of Santa Rosa, Calif., which advertises with unconscious wit: WE BUY JUNK. WE SELL ANTIQUES...
...Burns and Allen Show; of a heart attack; in Hollywood. "George," said Gracie in 1922, "I've got a great idea for an act. All we need is $200 for sets." "You're daffy," said George, and for the next 35 years she was indeed-a treasure trove of malapropisms, non sequiturs and nit-witty ideas that somehow always managed to pan out just before the commercial, making Gracie and her husband George one of the earliest, and certainly longest-lived situation comedy teams...
...Treasure-Trove. The divvying-up process is also based on the honor system. When Real Eight's estimated $1,000,000 in coins was divided last month, the company officials and their experts sat across the table from a highway patrolman and a couple of auditors for the state, none of whom professed to have any idea what the booty-largely consisting of pieces of eight, escudos and other gold and silver coins-might be worth. Still undivided is an estimated $500,000 in artifacts, such as gold and silver belt buckles, brooches and tie clasps, whose value...