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Marty (Hecht and Lancaster; United Artists). "Marty," says Mrs. Pilletti to her 34-year-old son, as he moves in on the evening plate of spaghetti after a hard day in Mr. Otari's butcher shop, "why don't you go to the Stardust Ballroom [tonight]?" Marty (Ernest Borgnine) tries to look unconcerned. "Ma, when you gonna give up? You got a bachelor on your hands. I ain't never gonna get married." But his mother (Esther Minciotti) can't let well enough alone, and finally Marty bursts out bitterly, "Whatever it is that women like...
...Ballroom merengue music is played in two-four time, with a strong drum accent on the first beat of every bar. Dancers take a step on each beat, so that the dance looks somewhat like a less dignified version of the Spanish paso doble (bullfighters' march). Basic merengue figures are a graceful two-beat side walk and four-or eight-beat spot turns (see diagram). "It's easy," says Manhattan Dancing Teacher Josephine Butler. "You do a fox trot with one leg and a rumba with the other...
...gold ballroom of London's Claridge's Hotel, Yugoslavia's jobless ex-King Peter, out for some quick sales, autographed copies of his new autobiography, A King's Heritage, for anybody with the price of the book. "When I wrote my memoirs for the American market," he confided to loiterers, "my publishers told me to get in as many names as possible, because it would sell better." Then, after sending fancy editions of Heritage to Britain's Queen Elizabeth II, Queen Mother Elizabeth and Sir Anthony Eden, he went off to No. 10 Downing Street...
...REPORTING AMBASSADOR ALDRICH's LONDON HOUSEWARMING PARTY, AT WHICH THE QUEEN WAS PRESENT, TIME, MARCH 7 ERRED IN SAYING THAT "LONDON'S PRESS NEXT DAY UPBRAIDED ALDRICH FOR HIS NEWS BLACKOUT AND THE BALLROOM MANNERS OF THE CRUDE AMERICANS . . ." NO PAPER CRITICIZED ALDRICH AND ONLY THE "EVENING STANDARD" COMMENTED ON THE MANNERS OF SOME AMERICANS PRESENT AT THIS SENSATIONALLY SUCCESSFUL SOCIAL FUNCTION...
...next day, before the 2,113 people jampacked into the Conrad Hilton's grand ballroom, Wolfson took the fight to Avery. He compared Ward's earnings of 5.5% on investment to Sears's 13%, J. C. Penney's if he couldn't do better, said Wolfson he "would tender my resignation and walk out." He reported spending $350,000 so far on the proxy fight, added he expected the stockholders would be "glad" to repay...