Word: gold
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cannon at Saratoga. The editorial ended on an odd and not entirely accurate note: "We want to remind American parliamentarians that the big, friendly American republic still owes us 2,000,000 gold pounds, 216 bronze cannon, 29 mortars, 12,806 cannon balls, 30,000 rifles with bayonets and 30,000 uniforms-the uniforms that Washington's men wore after Valley Forge and the cannons that won the Battle of Saratoga.* It is thanks to these rifles and cannon that Messrs. Pfeifer and Zablocki and Gordon are American "Congressmen today...
...Roses. Last week, in the red-and-gold pendopo (pavilion) of the Sultan of Jogjakarta, Soekarno formally took his oath of office on the Koran (which according to Moslem custom was held against the back of his head). "Brothers, brothers," he cried in his inaugural address, "I pray for strength. Our task now is to fill that vacuum called freedom . . . Now we must heal the wounds and wipe off the blood...
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (book by Joseph Fields & Anita Loos; music by Jule Styne; lyrics by Leo Robin) lets the famous Lorelei Lee of the '20s gold-dig once more-this time to music. The blonde is played by Carol Channing, who last season rocketed from nowhere to minor fame in Lend, an Ear. Last week she drew rave reviews; one critic ecstatically called her "the funniest female since Fanny Brice and Beatrice Lillie...
...N.A.M. wanted the U.S. to 1) abolish present excise taxes except on tobacco and liquor, and substitute a uniform manufacturer's excise tax on all end products excluding foods; 2) limit the 1951 budget to $33.6 billion (some $11 billion below present estimates); and 3) return to the gold standard...
Barbara Stauwyek does an excellent job as the soft-hearted gold digger. Needless to say, eventually she really falls for the guy. No one will mind this, however, because it's just more comic material for Preston Sturges to work with. There's no "hoke" in "The Lady Eve." Far from...