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...Your Struggles Are Over." Stores in Los Angeles and Dallas have set up Crockett clubs, marked off special Davy Crockett sections where youngsters can find everything from a Davy Crockett peace pipe (98?) to a complete Davy Crockett outfit with rifle, powder horn, cap, etc. ($7.98); a Davy Crockett guitar costs $4.98 extra. Denver's May Co. advertises a Davy Crockett bath towel, with this pitch to mothers: "Your bathtime struggles are over . . . They'll run to use Davy Crockett towels." Davy Crock-etteer Fess Parker, who stars in Disney's TV series, has already endorsed...
...subject. A change of heart was admitted by Brooklyn Democrat Victor Anfuso who, although a member of the Agriculture Committee, had said at one point in the debate: "Frankly. I couldn't tell the difference between buckwheat and cottonseed, or between cornstarch and non-fat milk powder." What Anfuso could tell the difference between was $1.25 and something less...
...often proves the case in duels, seconds are of inestimable value in preserving life and limb of the combatants. Neither Bullard nor Wallack desired to witness bloodshed the next morning, so they conceived the unsporting idea of loading the pistols with powder only. This plan they communicated to the ferocious Mr. Foster, who on reflection had lost much of his enthusiasm for the contest. Foster therefore heartily agreed to the boax, and we may suppose that he spent a much more restful night than did his unenlightened opponent...
...puts a shipwrecked English drummer on a tropical island and leaves him there when he makes the discovery that he never had it so good. When Ronald Rantz comes ashore, he takes with him his salesman's sample case. His stock in trade: exploding cigars, invisible itching powder, the usual assortment of smoking-car killers that are guaranteed to make you "Laugh Till You Cry." The island, a between-trade-routes speck somewhere near the Caribbean, looks like paradise, but the seemingly innocent natives soon prove to be suffering from human nature. They like private property and often marry...
...wastrel tradition Mickey shunned work, churned around Manhattan in a powder-blue Cadillac, carried a revolver, kept a bulging file of erotic photographs in his apartment, and lived it up expensively in the glossy glades of café society. So far, so bad. But Mickey couldn't leave it at that. He found employment as a salesman of a commodity he knew a lot about: girls...