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Annie Oakley Explained. Owner Hamid, now 65. bought the Steel Pier in 1945 for $2,500,000, has extended its length to half a mile and its box office to some $2,000,000 a year. Born in Lebanon and a tumbler from the age of three, the improbable Hamid was nine years old when, in Marseille, he met the first two Americans he had ever seen: Annie Oak ley and William F. ("Buffalo Bill") Cody. Hamid joined Cody's traveling circus, shined the great man's boots, kept his highballs full of ice, worshiped...
...dinner he drank toasts to Stalin, then Churchill, then Roosevelt, each time quaffing a full tumbler of vodka. One correspondent remembers his eyes: "bright, suspicious, ever moving, advertising the cunning thought, but also humorous and undaunted...
...Tumbler (by Benn W. Levy) was the sixth Broadway production to open in February and close within a week. A harrowingly pretentious verse drama, The Tumbler was the deadliest of the six, while also providing the most newsworthy casualties: Director Laurence Olivier, Actors Charlton Heston, Rosemary Harris and Martha Scott, and a playwright who once wrote Springtime for Henry...
...Tumbler, a verse play by Benn W. Levy, is directed by Sir Laurence Olivier. Farmer Charlton Heston meets Rosemary Harris in a barn. After they make love at first sight, she learns that he is her stepfather and the possible murderer of her father. As the mystery plays out, wrote the Boston Globe critic, "Levy's verse-speech sometimes glows with beauty, often is shrouded in mists of obscurity . . . But his play has power...
...glassware that is virtually breakproof-and if it does break, leaves no jagged edges-was put on sale by St.-Gobain of Paris at Gimbel Bros. The glass can be transferred from a subzero freezer to a 600° F. oven without cracking. Price of a twelve-piece tumbler...