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...shadow of Queen Anne Hill, on a 74-acre tract of land, fair buildings were rising dramatically. For Seattle, the experience was like that of the perennial wallflower who suddenly finds herself the belle of the ball. The town was mostly pleased, but partly dazed-and just a mite suspicious. There was dark talk about the girlie shows that are planned. Local businessmen were skeptical about the "New York money" that has poured into the fair and that, to many Seattleites, seems somehow tainted. The city fathers have refused to relax the Sunday curfew on liquor. But these are minor...
...advertising and business experts into top command. Presumably in the same nonveaii spirit, the Journal's editors trotted out as their No. 1 feature for the October issue: an "exclusive" and interminable study of Monaco's Princess Grace. Was the Journal's editorial lure a mite shopworn? Princess Grace has already been X-rayed to exhaustion by LIFE (1956). Collier's (1957). Look (1956. 1957. 1959. 1961). Redbook (1958). Cosmopolitan (1957, 1958), Coronet (1960) and the Saturday Evening Post (1960). Presumed moral: Never overestimate the power of a woman...
...press seemed determined to exploit the error for all it was worth. "Espionage!" sputtered the East German news agency. But, curiously, East German Boss Walter Ulbricht made little of the incident when he went on television for a major address at week's end. It was perhaps a mite embarrassing to discover that, for all the vaunted antiaircraft defenses at the edge of the Iron Curtain, two enemy planes could fly deep into East Germany unimpeded...
This, of course, didn't explain why well-off Mr. Smith should be made more well off by the Government at the taxpayers' expense-and for not working. But at week's end. the Government moved to make him just a mite less affluent. Freeman's Agriculture Department fined Cadillac Smith $321.84 for planting 7.1 acres more wheat last year than allowed by his 18.9-acre quota...
...Daughters (book, music and lyrics by Eaton Magoon Jr.) conscientiously adds its mite to making this Broadway's flabbiest season in years. About equally lavish and leaden, 13 Daughters takes place in 19th century Hawaii and stars Don Ameche as an amiably wily Chinese millionaire with 13 daughters to marry off. If that is not trouble enough, there is a Hawaiian custom that no daughter can marry till the eldest does, and a Hawaiian curse that none of Ameche's shall marry at all. Before the ban gives way to the banns, there is a lot of Hawaiian...