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...front wheels had locked, the cops could find no skid marks at the highway's edge. Next day Thomson changed his story, said that he had gone to sleep at the wheel. "Dick," said the sergeant, "why don't you get it all off your chest?" Dick calmly accommodated him. He signed a five-page confession and pleaded guilty to assault with attempt to kill...
Stars Over America (Tues. 10 p.m., all networks). Community Chest show, with Ray Bolger...
...Business. Inaugural day, Dec. i, was a great day in Ruiz Cortines' life. That was the day that he became boss; the man who had always been in second place moved into first. As the red, green and white sash of the presidency was draped across his chest, observers noted that his hand moved gently across the silk and his deep-set brown eyes lit up. Then he stepped confidently to the rostrum and spoke words that soon wiped the big smile off the face of Miguel Alemán. "Government-protected monopolies must end," said the new President...
...Polynesians used tattooing as a substitute for decorative clothes, covering their torsos with equivalents of California sport shirts. Few Westerners, excepting side show performers, go so far. But, Ebensten recalls, "A well-built man with a massive chest used to saunter along [London's] Edgeware Road in the hot summer of 1949 with his shirt open to the waist, proudly revealing a great scene of Mount Calvary." Denmark's King Frederik sports an array of Oriental dragons...
...little shop like some grotesque but bewitching hermit ..." But since World War I, tattooing has steadily declined. It is too conservative, for one thing, holding to such dull, outmoded motifs as Mickey Mouse, foul anchors, and bathing belles of yesteryear. Ebensten laments: "No atom bomb explodes on any lusty chest...