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...best advertising slogans of the 20s and 30s was "the longest gangplank in the world." It meant the French Line-and Gallic cuisine, Gallic wines, service flavored with I-kiss-your-hand-Madame. Today the luxurious gangplank is abbreviated. Normandie, Champlain, Paris are all gone. Only lie de France, queen of luxury, and the slow-going De Grasse are left. Of the line's 53 freighters only 22 are still afloat. But the gangplank is to be rebuilt...
While he was about it, Modelman Conover revived the tried-&-true cry of the '20s: fashion designers were wrecking women's health by making them look like matchsticks. Promptly Designer Valentina got into the act: "Nonsense! . . . When the curves need correcting, the designer . . . corrects them. But never, never does she ignore them...
...20s, when the tides of industry and empire were running with intoxicating speed, Harry Truman was content to be an obscure Missouri county judge. In the '30s, not by his own momentum but by the chance whim of a political boss, he was in the U.S. Senate. As 1945 began he was Vice President, a man struck by political lightning at the Chicago convention while eating a hotdog with mustard...
...years, Norman Armour had steered a steady, able course through troubled diplomatic waters: the Red Revolution in Leningrad, The Hague in 1920-21, Rome in the mid-'20s, Tokyo, Paris in the worst years of the depression, Canada, Argentina in the troubled times of 1939-44, then Francisco Franco's Madrid...
Billion Dollar Baby (books & lyrics by Betty Comden & Adolph Green; music by Morton Gould; produced by Paul Feigay & Oliver Smith) takes a cockeyed look, through purple-colored glasses, at the fantastic '20s. In a swirl of burlesque it lurches through speakeasies, totters through dance marathons, plugs racketeers, pummels gold diggers, plays hob with billionaires. Almost all of it is bold and un-Broadwayish, and bits and pieces of it are delightful. But as a whole, it doesn't quite come...