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...have gotten all we could possibly get from Joe Louis and still leave him with some hope that he can live," declared an Internal Revenue official last year. But last week the once peerless puncher, currently shuffling through a semi-soft-shoe act in a Detroit cabaret revue, was conscientiously dickering to kick back half his salary (reportedly $1,000 a week) as part payment on his 1946-52 tax arrears of more than $1,250,000. "I owe it. It was my fault," insisted the Brown Bomber. "And with all this Berlin stuff and getting...
...Mahgreb of Algeria, Tunisia and Morocco, presumably felt the need to demonstrate to the F.L.N. and to the Arab world generally that he is no "imperialist lackey," but can be as anticolonialist and as pan-Arab as anyone. Furthermore, Bourguiba's earnest and devoted friendship seemed to have gotten him nowhere with France, while the F.L.N.'s intransigeance promised to succeed brilliantly...
...tiptop shape. Run almost singlehanded by Chairman Harsen Smith with occasional advice from 53 other Smiths, the family-owned corporation was in visible -danger of losing its position as the company that made the right moves first. Says one top Chris-Craft executive: "We had gotten so we didn't pay attention to the market trends. The philosophy was: Let the pioneers get the arrows in their behinds...
...know childhood's most prized secret-that all adults are boobs-they should like this one. Best touch: the two Hayleys, on report for squabbling at camp, are trotted off to a detention cabin. Following them is a line of marchers, each aware that she has been gotten rid of by her parents, merrily whistling the concentration camp march from The Bridge on the River Kwai...
...claustrophilia to make a trailer a home, but more than 3,500,000 Americans are addicted to what they fondly call Wheel Estate. There are nearly 1,500,000 trailers on the road or lodged at some 18,500 parks in the U.S., and trailer living has gotten so popular that Michigan State University offers degrees in trailering (engineering, design, park management, etc.). It used to be that trailer living was the sole preserve of the unwanted and the rootless. Today, although trailerites have their share of spoilsports, mobile home promoters eagerly point out that most trailer people are nice...