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Sergeant Bill, in Manhattan for a big weekend, is promptly ditched by his hot date (Audrey Christie), left high & dry in her friend Sally's flat (a living room, bedroom and kitchen that Scene Designer Stewart Chancy has expertly squeezed into a single set). Bill and Sally get acquainted: Bill is decent, down to earth, off love since it scorched him a few years back. Sally is sweet, self-dramatizing, off love since it scorched her a week ago Tuesday. Because it is raining and he is tired and has no hotel room, Bill spends Friday night...
...looked up old friends; those still around were mostly the very old and the very young. He got used to staying in the kitchen-dining-living room; it was the one room with a fire. He played the radio incessantly; it was "grand to hear, music again." Evenings, he and Lily visited "The Post House" across the street. He drank beer-"I still like my mild and bitter"-but his wife celebrated extravagantly with double whiskies...
...morning Peewee was acting as supply sergeant for her company when Private Kenny Jacobs came into the WAC's kitchen. Helpfully he poured some gasoline into the stove to prime it, splashed some on his clothes, set himself afire and collapsed in a mass of flames. Peewee threw herself on him, smothered the fire with her body, beat it out with her bare hands. Private Jacobs was carried off to the hospital, lucky to be alive; Peewee was carried off with him, for treatment of burns on her face and legs...
...Dairy v. Kitchen. Their opposition went back to 1936, when the system was established by the late Prime Minister Michael Joseph Savage, head of New-Zealand's first Labor Government ("The Fair Deal"). He wanted the House proceedings broadcast, on the grounds that the press did not give the Labor Party an even break. He put New Zealand's transmitters under direct Government control, appointed himself first Minister of Broadcasting...
...Zealand, which has the world's fourth highest radio density (one for every 4.6 people) ate the parliamentary broadcasts up. Farmers fought their wives over the question of where to put the radio: dairy, barn or kitchen. Prime Minister Savage's pear-shaped tone and forthright manner quickly made him their favorite broadcaster. Conservatives have yet to produce his peer...