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Figures Will Figure at Seattle Fair
By Paul Wells
SEATTLE UP — F if for fair, and
F is for fun. G is for girls. And
the two follow each other as nat
urally as in the alphabet. They
always have.
There wag Little Wgynt the sen
sation of the 1893 Chicago World’s
Fair. Sally Rand and her fans in
1933, again in Chicago. And the
Nude Ranch at the San Francisco
Fair in ’39.
Girls will figure in the Seattle
World’s Fair, too. Which has some
of the more strait-laced people in
a tizzy.
Too much figure, they figure.
Joseph Gandy, World’s Fair
president, didn’t help matters any
when he proclaimed in ballyhoo
stops around the country that the
Century 21 exposition “would have
something for the boys.”
Gandy boasted that Seattle
“would out-Vegas Las Vegas” with
semi-nudity and girl revues. And
Gracie Hansen, entrepeneuse of the
Paradise International Night Club
on the Fair’s show street, added
fuel to the fire by tub-thumping
her “Girlie Show.”
An official World’s Fair m& 'i
orandum put it stuffily: “Some un
draping of the female form will
be permitted.”
The whole thing came to a head
the last week of March, a month
before Fair opening, when Mayor
Gordon Clinton asked the City
Council to ban any “lewd, sug
gestive, vulgar or immoral” en
tertainment on the grounds.
The council obliged by passing
an ordinance giving the City Board
of Theater Supervisors censorship
powers over shows at the Fair.
Meantime, producer Barry Ash
ton, who will stage the Paradise
International Revue, held a Holly
wood news conference and angrily
rear of a theater with showgirls’
dressing rooms and showers. Thirty
five showgirls will go through the
motions of going and coming off
stage, changing costumes, shower
ing, etc. No cameras will be al
lowed.
One of the girls will be 19-year
old Nancy Dimmock, who quit as
Queen of Los Angeles city em
ployes in a furore over her posing
for nude photographs.
The Galaxy Show will feature
models in various stages of undress
posing for pictures on a revolving
stage. Rental cameras will be avail
able. i
Downtown attractions during the
Fair will include “Minsky’s Follies,”
featuring one of the “cleanest” acts
in show business—striptesue Lili
St. Cyr and her bathtub.
Things may have been blown
up out of all proportion because
Seattle’s not big, blase and metro
politan.
Actually, the Seattle Fair has a
surprising preponderance of sci
entific and cultural aspects. The
Fair’s theme is the “World of To
morrow” and space age achieve
ments. And a $20 million perform
ing arts program has been lined
up which far overshadows the
earthier lure of Show Street.
As one Fair official pointed out,
there’ll be something for everyone
during the six-month exposition,
Show Street will be limited to
adults “and no one has to go if
he objects to what’s there.”
GOP NATIONAL CHAIRMAN
W. MILLER RAPS NIXON
WASHINGTON <*> — Republican
National Chairman William Miller
says if former Vice President
Richard Nixon “doesn’t wake up
and realize he must be human,
hell be an elder statesman at a
very early age."
Miller also told the Republican
Congressional Wives Club Friday
that Nixon conducted a “horrible”
campaign for the Presidency in
1860 and is doing the same thing
now in his race for the California
Republican gubernatorial nomina
tion.
“No one could get within four
miles of Nixon during the cam
paign,” Miller' said.
Nixon could not be reached for
comment on Miller’s statements.
Miller, a congressman from New
York, said in answer to a question
from the floor that although “a
majority of the press is liberally
oriented," Republicans “have only
thsnselvcs to blame for the bad
press we receive. The way -Re
publicans handle the press is
atrocious."
declared he was not planning a
girlie show.
No grinds, no bumps, no burles
que!
Ashton said Mrs. Hansen, whose
only previous show business ex
perience was putting on PTA en
tertainment in the little logging
town of Morton, Wn. (She quit
when they became “too adult”),
had misrepresented the revue.
He said he would welcome
theatrical censorship and called the
presence of semi-nudes in the show
“completely incidental to the pro
duction.” He said he was trying
to bring back some of the glamor
to show business in the ZiegSsId
manner, and wouldn’t risk his re
putation wi
tions.
Grade, buxom and flamboyant
in a style reminiscent of Texas
Guinan, meekly said Barry was
the boss, and what he said goes.
There’ll be other sophisticated
entertainment, prompting some
out-of-town reference to the Fair
as “Sexury 21”
Also on Show Street, and like the
others for adults only, will be
-:Feep Backstage — U.S.A.” pro
duced by Jack Matlack, Portland,
and staged by Hollywood producer
and choreographer LeRoy Prinz,
and “Girls of Galaxy.”
“Peep” will give spectators the
illusion of seeing a cutaway of the
GLUE|POT
Soiia Fountain
LEWIS BROTHERS TO
MEET "OUTSIDE"
Charles Lewis of the State High
way Dept., left on his annual va
cation trip which will take him to
New York. He will be joined soon
by his twin brother, Harry Lewis,
Wien acting station manager, who
will leave next week, and brother
Robert Lewis of Hagens Jewelry
Store, who left today. The three
brothers intend to take in the C21
Fair in Seattle.
Mrs. Caldwell Returns Home
Mrs. Wm. Caldwell and infant
daughter returned home last week
from Seattle where she had taken
the little girl for medical atten
tion. She also visited relatives in
Kent, Spokane and Yakima, Wash.
Patterson Will Fight In September
NEW YORK m — Heavyweight
champion Floyd Patterson prob
ably will defend his title against
Sonny Liston either Sept. 17 at
Yankee Stadium or Sept. 26 at
the Polo Grounds in New York,
Tom Boland, president of Cham
pionship Sports, Inc., announced
today.
Many large and small business
firms today believe their economic
safety lies in diversification, but
Andrew Carnegie, the rugged little
steel tycoon, gave this advice: “Put
all your eggs in one basket. Hatch
that basket.”
BYRON WHITE SWORN IN
AS ASSOCIATE JUSTICE
WASHINGTON UR — With Pres
ident Kennedy watching in a
packed Supreme Court chamber,
Byron R. White, 44, was sworn in
today as an Associate Justice.
It is the first time in history
that a former law clerk of the
tribunal has ascended to the court’s
bench. White served as a law clerk
in 1946-47 under the late Chief
Justice Fred Vinson.
Before the public ceremony in
the marbled chamber, White had
taken in a private conference room
the constitutional oath to “well and
faithfully discharge” his duties as
a justice.
This oath was administered in the
presence only of the other justices
of the court.
White succeeds Justice Charles
Evans Whittaker who retired April
1 because of poor health.
Down the Drain . . .
LEXINGTON, Ky. UR — R. W.
Richmond saw his income tax re
turn go down the drain—literally.
He drove up to a curbside mail
box at the post office Sunday and
attempted to drop the envelope
in the letter slot. He missed. The
return went through a street grating
and into a storm sewer.
Firemen retrieved it after a brief
search.
Karl Nestvold Advanced
To Rank of Asst. Professor
Karl J. Nestvold, former staff
member of Nome’s AFRS radio
station, has been advanced to the
rank of Asst. Professor at the Uni
versity of Oregon, Eugen, Ore.
Nestvold was program director
of the Nome AFRS station in 1956
and 1857 while he served with the
U S. Air Force.
He has been a faculty member
at the University of Oregon since
1961. In the School Journalism,
Nestvold teaches courses in radio
and television news and station
management. He also is general
manager of the Oregon Association
of Broadcasters. He holds a B.S.
degree from the University of
Wyoming and an M.S. degree
from the University of Oregon.
Nestvold is married to the for
mer Carolyn GlavinoVich of Nome.
The couple has two children, Ruth,
3, and Karen, 1. They reside at
2325 Agate St., Eugene.
Shot By His Horse . . .
CAVE CREEK, Arix. UP> — Hu
bert Yates, 29, Phoenix, was shot
by his horse Sunday.
Yates was unsaddling a pack
horse when it kicked his revolver
from his holster, causing the gun
to fire. Deputy sheriff Lewis For
man said the bullet hit Yates in
the leg.
From romping toddlers to growing-up girls, ail the
young fashionables can parade proudly, when you
choose here ! Wide selection of suits, dresses, coats
slates and the Alaska Rail Bell with its burgeoning civilian and
military establishments. The City of New Orleans, which loads
through the stern, will connect with the Great Northern, Northern
Pacific, Union Pacific and Milwaukee railroads in Seattle and with
the Alaska Railroad in file 49th State. ~