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...increasing cigarette sales in Third World countries are encouraging to tobacco manufacturers. If the habit continues to grow in nations like Kenya, where consumption is up 8% annually, the cigarette companies will have to provide these people with artificial lungs within a generation. Robert G. Arthur Kings Park...
...matter what Sir Arthur Conan Doyle says, they could just as well have met as schoolboys. And it is more than likely that the twigs that grew into the sturdiest oaks of detective fiction were bent way back when: Sherlock Holmes (Nicholas Rowe) brainy and arrogant, John Watson (Alan Cox) loyal and bumbling...
...stepped-up counterintelligence efforts by the FBI and CIA (see box). The most spectacular catch came last summer with the arrest of John Walker, a retired Navy communications specialist who sold secrets to the Soviets for 17 years with the help of his son Michael, 23, his brother Arthur and, allegedly, his friend Jerry Whitworth...
...royalty charges of between 7% and 10%. With the help of a recently passed state law that protects service marks, the chamber hopes to raise $300,000 within the next 18 months. Predictably, the move has drawn few hoorays from local businessmen. Says Jim Arthur, president of California Lifestyles, a maker of souvenir sportswear: "The notion is absurd. If the name of the city isn't in the public domain, then what is?" The courts may ultimately determine if the chamber's claim is valid...
Kobal includes some exuberant memoirs. Producer Arthur Freed reconstructs the difficult casting of Show Boat: "I love Dinah [Shore], and she finally said: 'Why don't you give me the part?' And I said: 'Because you're not a whore . . . Ava is.'" Joel McCrea explains his laconic independence: "I owned 1,000 acres, which I paid very little for, and which I sold for $5 million...