Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eddie Cantor brooded for Variety. "The public deserves . . . new talent . . . that is not so completely in the groove. Remember, it isn't too far from the groove to the grave. . .. There...
...true that the U.S. has no alternative to spending more billions on Europe? It has just one. The U.S. could start dropping atomic bombs on Russia now, before the Russians can retaliate. It could, but there isn't one chance in ten million that it will. Sixteen centuries ago a great Christian (Saint Ambrose) laid it down that Christians have no right to go to war "unless driven to it." There are enough people in the U.S. who feel the way Ambrose felt about it, so that the Russians need not stay awake nights...
...however, was shed. The main noise in an Orange parade is made by the Lambeg drummers, who wallop their four-foot-high Lambegs with cane whips 30 inches long. The noise, they say, is like that an elephant makes-but an elephant cannot make it staccato. A Lambeg drummer isn't doing anything at all until his wrists begin to bleed from smacking against the drum; when they see that Orange blood, the crowd, thinking of the Battle, always cheers...
...hell of a good pitcher. ... I didn't connect very solidly." Added Cleveland's Lou Boudreau, who as Feller's manager should know, "Blackwell equals anything we've got in our league. ... As good as Feller? Well, Feller's in our league, isn't he?" There was one difference between them. Veteran Feller, who has been on top for eleven years and is the highest paid pitcher in baseball, makes well over $75,000; Blackwell gets about...
Joan Leslie is sincere as the unhappy girl caught in Fate's double-focus; and Mr. Hayward throws all his weight into his role as a noisome drunkard-husband. But it is hard to figure out why he isn't done in again long before the show is over...