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...Graziano. Out in Oakland, Calif., far from his Brooklyn haunts, Rocky was training for a fight with Oldtimer Fred Apostoli when a mood struck him. He wired a friend for $300. When the money came, he hopped a plane, unkempt, unshaven and still dressed in his training clothes. A snowstorm that grounded the plane in Chicago didn't stop him; without bothering to cash the unused part of his plane ticket, he climbed aboard a train for New York...
...continental joke, they will at least see plenty of Betty. Caped in ermine (900 skins, $28,000) and daintily barefoot, or garbed in flossy period costumes, Betty is all over the place. She dances on the tabletop with the hussar in the skintight pants. She rides through a snowstorm. She sings...
...three years in office O'Dwyer has met many a crisis. Probably the greatest was the great snowstorm of Dec. 26, 1947, when 25.8 inches blanketed the streets, stopped all traffic, barricaded fire engines, halted garbage collections. Fleets of borrowed tractors, sanitation trucks, snowplows removed 99 million tons of snow, and opened 5,000 miles of streets. He created a successful agency for mediating labor disputes. He engaged in an uphill battle to encourage housing construction. The new trend: great groups of apartment houses like the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.'s Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town. After...
...American Automobile Association reported that road conditions will continue to be good till Christmas, unless a snowstorm should break out. Trafile will be most dense on Wednesday and Christmas...
Vest-Pocket Vesuvius. A hot drink can easily be prepared in a snowstorm with a new pestle-like gadget called the Heatron Stirrer. It has a small cylinder on one end vhich contains a cartridge-like charge. Immersed in liquid, the stirrer gives off enough fumeless heat to bring a cup of water to the boiling point. Price, including six charges...