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Jack Paar did a favor for NBC by ridding it of Dody Goodman [March 24]. Now, why can't NBC get rid of Jack Paar...
...balloon is erected into a sphere 30 in. in diameter. The pressure inside it (.2 lb.) is enough to stretch the wrinkles out of the aluminum film and make it mirror smooth. After doing this job, the nitrogen escapes into the vacuum outside. O'Sullivan wants to get rid of it because the balloon may be punctured by a meteor, and a jet of gas escaping from it might push it off its regular orbit...
...Partisan League split up, part of it going over to the Democratic Party, the other part joining the regular Republicans. In that breakup, the Republicans got saddled with U.S. Senator Bill Langer. And having got him, last week they tried to get rid of him: the state G.O.P. convention voted 348 to 177 on its fifth ballot to dump Wild Bill Langer, 71, in favor of Lieutenant Governor Clyde Duffy, 68. The convention vote will not prevent Langer from running in the party's June primary-and no one who knows stubborn Bill Langer thinks he will do anything...
...Kabaka seduces one of their daughters-in fact, that is how most of them became the best families. If Freddie throws off the hampering moral ties of Anglicanism, as he has been trying to throw off the political hold of Britain, the tribalists may in gratitude try to get rid of the progressives once and for all by restoring the Kabaka to his former status as absolute monarch. Said a colonial official sadly: "King Freddie is not the sort of monarch Britain wants...
...brother Frank had made and lost nearly $1,000,000 in Chicago real estate ventures. His later success as a Broadway producer ("I believe in giving the customers a meat-and-potatoes show. Dames and comedy") brought in big money almost as fast as Todd got rid of it. The Hot Mikado (1939), Star and Garter (1942), Mexican Hayride (1944) and Up in Central Park (1945) were so successful that by 1947 Todd's creditors numbered more than 100 and sued him for more than...