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...Forthwith, Huey climbed out on a limb over Memorial Drive, felt an old prediction coming on, and said...
...show, bright and British as a redcoat, rose to the occasion. It was a political parable about two youngsters (Soprano Carole Lynn and Tenor Eric Palmer) who get themselves elected to Parliament on an All Party ticket. Forthwith they foil the villainess, Mrs. Alderman Busy (Joan Young), a battle-ax burlesque of Lady Astor. With the aid of Big Ben the barge-master (David Davies), they abduct her from the floor of the House of Commons while she is proposing Prohibition. And after much pother and porridge, all factions unite in a flag-waving finale ("Big Ben! Big Ben! . . . Chime...
...Charles II, the "Merry Monarch," tore himself away from his mistresses long enough to consider the stars. They must be, he decided, "anew observed, examined and corrected, for the use of his seamen." Forthwith he commanded "our trusty and well-beloved Sir Christopher Wren, Knight" to build "a small observatory within our park at Greenwich . . . with all convenient speed." Those were bargain days. Sir Christopher tore down a gatehouse in the Tower of London and a fort at Tilbury. With the salvaged stone and timber, and with ?520 from the sale of old gunpowder, he ran up a building...
...heartily as Hearst detests it, the stunt had a fishy smell. When one of the seven women called PM to say she had been misquoted (she had been asked by a Hearstling to comment on black markets, not on OPA), reporters checked with the other six. PM forthwith reproduced the Journal display, gleefully noted that all seven ladies really liked OPA, ran the natural counter-headline: OPA? YES!!-HOW HEARST LIED SEVEN TIMES...
When they heard about his dismissal, Kestler's entire staff (51 enlisted men, three officers) forthwith entered requests for transfer. To correspondents, Kestler poured out a bitter account of Lee's heavy-handed interference with G.I. journalism. The General's attitude toward enlisted men, said he, was like that "of an old Southern plantation owner toward his slaves...