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...year-old Pennsylvania airport manager named George Humphrey got the fright of his life as he putted along near Fort Dix, N.J. in a Piper Super-Cruiser. A Navy F6F Hellcat fighter came unexpectedly up beneath him and shot out ahead of his plane, giving him "a terrific prop wash...
...main props of Juan Perón's popularity has been his policy of holding retail food prices at artificially low levels. Last week the prop was unceremoniously yanked away. Argentines awoke to find the costs of basic foodstuffs up as much as 100% overnight...
Family Act. The Buick-sponsored, hour-long uproar offered explosive fragments of an act the comics have been working on for 35 years. It grew from the first prop they ever used - a brass rail to support their vaudeville rendition of Sweet Adeline. Today, their hundreds of props fill three baggage cars, their cast of 90 includes 35 stooges. For all its size, the show is still essentially a family vaudeville act. Johnson's pretty daughter, June, and his son-in-law, Comic Marty May, have leading roles. So does deadpan Ole's deadpan son, J. C. Olsen...
...stand at week's end, many a spectator wondered how her story would sound under cross examination this week. But none denied that Judy and Archie had put on the brashest old-fashioned courtroom melodrama Washington had seen since the secret document replaced the mortgage as a prop for villains...
...freshman fifties won their race by two lengths, one length less than last week's victory margin. Tabor Academy entered its varsity boat in the race, but the prop schoolers were a tired third. The Yardlings' time...