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...audience at Los Angeles' Encino Theater was just settling back to watchShelley Winters sin in South Sea Sinner when a tuxedoed headwaiter from Ciro's marched down the center aisle. Behind him came two red-coated flunkies, ceremoniously bearing aloft a jumbo-sized shrimp cocktail. They halted and served it to a hefty customer three seats off the aisle. Then came Squab under Glass, Caesar Salad, Cherries Jubilee (in flaming brandy). By the time Erskine Johnson had eaten his way to the check ($12.65), the audience was also fed up; it chorused, "Throw...
...Barry passed the order over the intercom: "Abandon ship." Then he cut in the automatic pilot. In the radio compartment just abaft the pilots' seats, Staff Sergeant Vitale Trippodi tied down his radio key to keep a signal on the air as long as the aircraft was 'aloft, and dove for the escape hatch. Within seconds, all 17 aboard had leaped into a 55-mile gale, drifted down into the wilderness of Princess Royal Island, off the coast of British Columbia, 450 miles northwest of Seattle. It was a few minutes before midnight...
Back to Gooseberry Tart. In Lincoln, hatless, slightly rumpled Attlee pointed aloft to the spires of the city's famed Norman and Gothic cathedral. "There is your heritage," he cried to his audience. "All around is your wealth, and here, in your hands and your brains, is your skill. The country needs it all." Then he added bitterly: "It was not so long ago that skill and brains were forgotten, wasted . . . Profits came first . . . Today you've got work, you've got security, education for your children, and fair shares for all." Later, the Prime Minister...
Raven-haired Mimi Benzell, the Met coloratura soprano, was voted "the most beautiful woman in opera" by a group of artists in Manhattan, and tossed aloft to record a picture of triumph from the shoulders of her beaming judges...
...Salve reached its peak: a detachment of the Garde Republicaine rode out to an apartment house in the seedy Menilmontant district on the northeastern rim of Paris. The sun glinted on the guardsmen's silvery helmets and on the glossy black hides of their horses. While they held aloft their sabers in salute, while trumpets blared and drums rolled, an officer unveiled a bronze plaque on the apartment house wall: On the fifth floor of this building in July 1940 under the direction of the fervent patriots Lange, called "Alcyn," and Salve, called "Jean de Sylves," was born...