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Fearing collision, he ordered a sharp turn to port, personally pushed the button for the prescribed two-short-blast signal for port turn, and sent Andrea Doria churning through the dark sea at more than 20 knots in a desperate effort to cross in front of Stockholm. When Stockholm began her turn, Calamai testified, she sounded no warning signal. Had he been warned by signal of her starboard turn, he could still have swung to starboard. "Would that have avoided a collision?" asked a lawyer for the Italian Line. "Certainly," said Piero Calamai...
Nonetheless, from every hamlet and crossroad, pundits pushed the panic button for Republicans after studying the skies (large parts of Missouri, Colorado, Oklahoma and Iowa, as well as Kansas, are suffering from drought) and the statistics (Republicans cringed at an Agriculture Department report last week showing that farm prices had gone down by .5% between mid-August and mid-September). Wrote Columnist Stewart Alsop under a What Cheer, Iowa dateline: "Candidate Eisenhower is in deep, deep trouble in the typical Midwestern farm community which surrounds this small town...
Maurice Evans, Ray Bolger and Elaine Stritch will star in 16 one-hour live shows called Washington Square, alternating with the Chevy Show's Dinah Shore and Bob Hope. Nanette Fabray, who left Sid Caesar for greener folding money, will star in High Button Shoes. Producer's Showcase will offer Somerset Maugham's The Letter (produced and directed by William Wyler), a musical version of Jack and the Beanstalk with Celeste Holm and Cyril Ritchard. John Huston's Lysistrata, Anatole Litvak's Mayerling with Audrey Hepburn and Mel Ferrer, Claire Bloom...
...shakes; the tooth breaks. "So that's the game, is it?" crows the dentist, still merry as a grig. He assaults the tooth "with something like a buttonhook." Another piece breaks off. "We'll have to saw," cries the delighted dentist. While the tooth is sawed, button-hooked, drilled and shaken, the dentist, dropping his guard for an instant, admits to the patient that he (the dentist) has suffered hell in his private life. But that's all over now. Life is wonderful. "That gum of yours is going to be sore," the dentist blandly concludes...
Asked how he started his button collecting, Sugar explains that it was originally a diversion resorted to when he had to accompany his mother to antique shops. Having nothing else to do while he waited, Sugar looked for buttons...