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...asked for Charms. Chuckles. Cheers or Nuggets, he got candy. Today he gets a disk, by one of the score of vocal groups whose recordings are crowding the bestseller lists. Not all the groups go by such fancy names. There are simple families: the Ames Brothers, the McGuire, De Marco. DeCastro and Fontane Sisters, and groups that wish to establish the fact, before any doubts arise, that they are quartets: the Four Aces, Four Lads, Four Knights, Four Tunes, Four Freshmen...
...flight just as they were about to burn alive Vena, the beautiful navigator for Rocky Jones, Space Ranger; a bearded, mad scientist was certain to be thwarted by right-thinking Captain Video who, as the press release puts it, is an unbeatable "combination of Einstein, King Arthur and Marco Polo," and Space Patrol's Commander Buzz Corry was zooming through the cosmos intent on reforming the almost limitless supply of villains with his soul-washing Brain-O-Graph...
...only by a margin of 37% to 28%. Laborites gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage to China...
While scholars pored over Polo family documents, including Marco's will, 500 tourists a day filed through the Doges' Palace to look at priceless works in bronze, jade, ceramics, textiles and lacquers, dating from the Yin dynasty (1766-1122 B.C.) to the Ming dynasty...
...while a prisoner of war in Genoa, Marco Polo dictated The Description of the World, his account of "the diversities of kingdoms, provinces, and regions of all parts of the East." A copy annotated by Christopher Columbus is in the Biblioteca Capitular Colombina in Seville...