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...public favor, portly (195 Ibs.) Colonel Stoopnagle, 50, isn't quite sure how it happened. "It's funny," he says; "they just started laughing again. And this time they laugh right out loud-in the studio. Kinda scared me at first. I remember when they'd pull a long face at my act, and wouldn't double-take until they were at least three blocks away from the station...
...self, New York's late Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia wanted to start a people's opera. Four years ago he did - the non-profit New York City Opera Company -and hired an unsung director named Laszlo Halasz to run it: he was the only applicant who had no pull. But he id have push - enough push to start a small operatic revolution...
Meanwhile, the odds on a Dilworth victory, prohibitive at the outset, plummeted daily. The Republicans still appeared likely to pull through on the strength of their customarily overpowering majorities in 20 downtown and river wards-the "controlled" wards. But Dick Dilworth was giving them a scare. Said one unhappy ward heeler: "It's getting so they're afraid to take a bet at City Hall...
...hormone treatments will not help. They tried this treatment on 30 patients and in most cases it worked; in more complicated cases, the psychiatrists concluded that middle age may plunge a man into so profound a mental and emotional depression that nothing short of psychiatry or shock treatments will pull...
...before we get to Dartmouth, the photog suggests we add more realism, so we go to a hamburger stand, and order three hamburgers, with thick slices of onion. The waitress does not like us. To make it seem that we are New York slickers, we chew gum when we pull into Hanover, and also to seem like polite Joes who don't like to have people breathing our enjoy breath...