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...daytime, the slabs expand in the sun's heat. In the evening, the concrete contracts, and the slabs wobble when a car goes over it." The edges grate on each other, and the noise echoes in the car. Grumbled Novak: "I swear that nearly every high-school kid in Detroit has driven this street. They even have parties on my front lawn. Maybe if you tell them what it is, we can get some sleep again." City engineers checked the explanation, and the Detroit Times printed it. But Mr. Novak was overoptimistic. At week's end the squealy...
...Paris, after finishing her first movie, Monte Carlo Baby, Michelle Farmer, 19-year-old daughter of Gloria Swanson, announced that she was flying home to tell mother about her plans to marry Turkish-born Movie Producer Robert Amon, 36. Said she: "As a kid I traveled with mother on enough one-night stands. I know what an awful lot of heartbreak and struggle goes into a stage career. If there's a choice, you're crazy not to take a home and a family...
...Twin City Rapid Transit Co. Green had won that job after threatening a proxy fight. In November 1949, he had gone to Minnesota, armed with 19,200 shares of T.C.R.T. and complaints about no dividends. As an ally in his fight, he picked up Nightclub Proprietor Isadore Blumenfeld, alias Kid Cann, a wealthy Minneapolis underworld character with a record of 30 arrests (two for murder) and three liquor convictions...
...done in grand style. There was a glittering banquet at Washington's Mayflower Hotel, where Harry Truman looked fondly at Bill Boyle and said: "I am as happy as I can be, of course, that my lifetime friend-I have known him ever since he was a kid (I knew his mother before him and she was one of the best Democrats that Missouri ever produced)-is the national chairman of the Democratic Party." Howard McGrath, in an expansive, oratorical flourish, hailed Boyle as "that eminent lawyer from the state of Missouri, ever devoted to the cause of good...
...subtle for Legion members. There was some question whether readers would recognize their commander's references to "pastel mink coats, Phi Beta Kappa keys, and deference to the British Foreign Office." In answer to this call for help from the ranks, "American Legion" has taken off its kid gloves...