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...that he had done nothing to deserve their attention. Even though the baroness shrieked to watch out for his hands, the furious cops gave his knuckles such a beating that he bears the lumps to this day. The baroness took the rap for "some loose marijuana" found in the trunk, but after three years' legal maneuvering she was acquitted. No narcotics charges were placed against Monk, but because of the scandal the police again picked up his card...
...Ballet Master Leonid Lavrovsky told the young ballerina. "If you turn out to be a good dancer you can keep it." The dancer's name was Natalia Bessmertnova, and since in Russian that means Natalie the Immortal, its owner seemed destined to carry it awkwardly-like a steamer trunk with fancy labels. Last week, with barely two months as a Bolshoi soloist behind her, Bessmertnova was established in Moscow's excited ballet world as decidedly bessmertnova-even more so, said her teachers, than the immortal Ulanova...
Bitter Controversy. The fastest rise in air-freight shipments has been among the major U.S. trunk airlines-United, TWA, American and Pan American-which are predominantly passenger carriers. This fact has involved them in a bitter controversy with the all-cargo lines, such as Slick and Flying Tiger, which claim that the encroachments of the big lines could drive them out of business. Most of the big lines are losing money on their cargo operations, but these losses are balanced out by the current rich profits from passenger travel. The Civil Aeronautics Board, sympathetic to the plight...
...frantic father, out cruising the area looking for him. Finally, Frank reached the elegant Bel Air district and hailed one of the private patrol cars that the community maintains. To smuggle him past the crowd of reporters, Patrolman George C. Jones popped him into the car's trunk and proudly delivered him to his waiting mother and father...
Hallelujah the Hills! A man chops vigorously at the trunk of a tree containing 36 girls. Somebody grabs somebody's nose in a nutcracker and darn near twists it off. A yokel sits on his front porch and earnestly whittles a new seat for a two-holer. Two young men stalk a birthday cake and then pump it full of bullets. One of them runs slowly across the screen, stark-naked. "Cuckoo!" says a clock on the sound track. "Cuckoo!" And it really...