Word: laughingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Mutual offered Split the Atom, the first of a series of tinsel-wrapped, icing-covered educational programs. Plugged as a giveaway show, advertised with titillating copy ("Is it serious? Or just plain delirious? You'll be frightened . . . and enlightened. You'll laugh . . . and you'll learn"), and presented before a typical studio audience of 900 people, Split the Atom was even endowed with a sponsor ("Nature, spelled NATURE, world's greatest manufacturer of energy...
Ingeniously staged on two levels-living room below, bedrooms above-the play is consistently written at one level: get a laugh at any cost. Actually, if it showed a little more self-respect, it might be considerably more amusing...
Romance traveled a rocky road; but love, with a brief, side-of-the-mouth laugh at locksmiths, conquered all. Francis Hitchcock, 39, balding younger brother of the late Long Island-polo-playing Tommy Hitchcock, and Stephany Saja, 23, blonde daughter of a Windber, Pa. coal miner, were taking a well-earned vacation-a honeymoon in Rio. It had been a nerve-racking week. In the course of just a few days, Stephany flew down to Daytona Beach, Fla. from New York, Francis got his divorce from his second wife, the happy couple eloped for a two-minute civil ceremony...
...staff car, had finished a book called Eisenhower Was My Boss. An excerpt from Kay's preface was used in a long blurb for the syndicated newspaper rights: "It is, in a way, a report to women, other women ... I was to work and eat and ride and laugh and drink and play and suffer with the famous commander ... I was to know love, intimately. And I was to know, just as intimately, the unspeakable pain of losing my lover in battle . . ."t Her job was, she knew, an enviable one -"An obvious side door to the Supreme Commander...
Angus MacMillan is a jolly old man with a weather-lined face, a scraggly mustache, and a laugh that comes from his belly. He was born in Benbecula, in the Outer Hebrides, and only left the island once-to join the territorials during the Boer War. As a child, he went to school to learn a bit of reading. After seven weeks of it, he came home again to be a crofter on a small farm...