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...sunshine girl was not born in a trunk, but in Deadwood. S. Dak. As a child she dressed up in pillowcase sheaths with her little sister (now a housewife in Montrose, Calif.) and learned the Charleston. At the University of Washington, she majored in drama, minored in mononucleosis, got elected princess of this and that-later, it was to be "Queen of Better Drive-Ins"-and handed out quiz prizes for a local TV station. Two years ago, Dorothy began looking pretty for Warner Bros, at $500 a week. In her first TV series, The Alaskans, she played opposite...
Smith laid the major blame for the airlines' straits on the Civil Aeronautics Board for its "lavishness" in awarding new routes to "needy" trunk airlines. This policy, said Smith, hurts the bigger airlines while seldom helping the feeders. Smith recommends instead more mergers to benefit the public, such as the merger that joined Capital and United Airlines. But CAB last week announced that it has decided to go slow on approving future mergers. Main reason for allowing Capital to merge with United, said CAB, was that there was no other way to keep Capital operating...
Matilda's Trunk. The Battle of Belgrave Square proved a victory of sorts for the minicabs' cause. The spectacle of big taxis ganging up on a tiny minicab aroused Londoners' traditional sympathy for the underdog, as well as delight at the prospect of cheaper fares. Almost every one had a story about a rude old-style cabby who took him to his destination the long way round, or short-changed him, or passively watched as dear old Aunt Matilda wrestled with her steamer trunk. "That's the public for you," lamented a veteran cabby...
...ordered workmen to build temporary housing to accommodate the 6,000 dignitaries he expects from all over the world. Six weeks hence, when the guests gather in a field outside the town, the torch will be touched, and the old King, in his gilded coffin carved from a sandalwood trunk chosen by the bonzes as predestined to receive the royal body, will go up in scented smoke...
...hours' interrogation, Raymond Rolland fainted, was revived with smelling salts, and then confessed. Pierre Larcher soon confessed too. Frogmen dove into the Seine and recovered the Hermes typewriter where Raymond said he had thrown it; the last $11,500 of the ransom money was found locked in the trunk of Larcher's Fiat...