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...long to hand down his verdict (King had waived a jury trial): King was found guilty, fined $500, assessed $500 in court costs, and released on bond pending appeal. The crowd flowed out in front of the courthouse, surrounding King and his wife. A gold-toothed woman shouted: "We ain't going to ride the buses now for sure." A middle-aged woman told King: "My heart and my pocketbook are at your disposal." A mass prayer meeting was set for that night. A man yelled to the crowd: "You going to be there?" Chorused the crowd...
...Mambo Italiano, Make Yourself Comfortable and Tina Marie), has now gone Hollywood in a big way with an M-G-M option to produce as well as score five to ten musicals in seven years. For his first, a version of Anna Christie to be called A Saint She Ain't, he has written 16 songs, which he characterizes as "very lofty." Brash Tunesmith Merrill believes cliches are the secret of pop success; he keeps notebooks full of them, from which came his first click, If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd 've Baked...
...rescue work. And off West Palm Beach, Fla. an Air Force crash boat pulled a pilot from the drink. When his engine flamed out, he had radioed: "I'm going to deadstick her down." Then, after a moment of mature consideration, he changed his mind, declared, "No, I ain't," and bailed...
...Warner Bros., Zanuck made so much money for the studio with his silent Rin-Tin-Tin series that Warner decided to shoot a barrel of profits on a daring experiment: The Jazz Singer (produced by Zanuck), which starred Al Jolson and ended silent films with a spoken line ("You ain't heard nothing yet, folks!"). Always keen to sense a popular trend, Zanuck took advantage of the movies' gangster cycle by featuring such early hair-triggered tough guys as Edward G. (Little Caesar) Robinson...
What with hushing up the scandal, and the phony baby ploy, Blade finds that Adams is gaining ground. Still he needles his staff with the first law of gimmickry: "There ain't any highbrow in lowbrows, but there's some lowbrow in everybody." Where is the golden kazoo† that will pied-pipe the voters into the Adams camp? Before Election Day rolls around, Blade finds the kazoo and a tune to tootle...