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Natural Causes. In Winnipeg, Man., when a motorist complained that his Ford screeched like a cat, Mechanic Ivan Booth lifted up the car hood, found a badly frightened cat perched on the battery...
Honored by the Barter Theater of Abingdon, Va.: Actress Shirley Booth, for her playing of a slattern in Broadway's Come Back, Little Sheba. The award: "one Virginia ham and a platter to eat it off of," and an acre of Virginia land...
...Electric's merchandising division, was a salesman for a printing company, an industrial field researcher for the New England Council, a sales research and promotion expert for Standard Oil Co. of Indiana. After six years with Standard, he became a professional management adviser, and joined Chicago's Booth Fisheries where he was general manager when he left to go to work as executive vice president for Johnson...
Aside from Miss La Rose, the rest of the production is run-of-the mill. Irving Harmon, the featured comedian, succeeds in milking a number of laughs from such standard skits as the phone booth routine, the twice-rented hotel room and the wishing wand gimmick. Harmon, who walks on his heels and wields an educated cane in the best W. C. Fields manner, salvages the comic aspects of the show...
Blocked-Out Men. The lights were supposed to glow later that day on one John J. Huber, once an undercover man for the FBI, but he never showed up. Next day Huber called a news service from a Manhattan phone booth. He had "blacked out," he explained. "I don't know what I'm doing here. I do not remember a thing until 5 a.m. when I found myself wringing-wet, walking on Seventh Avenue." He was going away, he added, to "try to get back on my feet...