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Sinatra turned the song down because its wide-ranged wails were too awkward to sing. Bandleaders and record companies were similarly shy. Then a Chicago crooner named Eddie Howard gave it a whirl. Within a month To Each His Own climbed to first place in the popular-song polls. Last week it was firmly established as the No. 1 song hit of the season...
Last week Hearst's King Features Syndicate bought a Cassini society column, but it was not Igor's. The author: pretty, pouty Austine ("Bootsie") Cassini, Igor's 26-year-old wife. The title: Washington Whirl, to run thrice weekly in 100-odd papers, as a hodgepodge of capital chitchat, politics and favorite embassy recipes...
...life. I had lots to unlearn about music.") He soon unlearned enough to collect six Spanish musicians and book himself as a relief band in Los Angeles' gaudy Cocoanut Grove. Bashful couples were afraid of his Latin rhythms, so he hired a half-dozen tango experts to whirl unescorted ladies around the floor ("If women learned, their boy friends naturally had to do something about...
...contain slightly more chromatin (chromosome material), it must be slightly heavier. The problem, therefore, is to separate "biological isotopes." Harvey, citing a centrifuge method which has separated the light and heavy parts of sea urchins' eggs, thinks it can be done. His proposal: use a special centrifuge to whirl the sperm; the lighter male-producing sperm will rise to the top, can be skimmed off and planted by artificial insemination...
...families have disappeared, although there are still Crockers and a sprinkling of Sutros and Spreckels around. The exclusive and monstrous Pacific Union Club, once the home of Bonanza King James Flood, is still a rendezvous of the wealthy, but Nob Hill is no longer the center of the social whirl. The center now is the Burlingame Country Club, outside of town...