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...seven brothers of the title are the seven redheaded Pontipee boys-Adam, Benjamin, Caleb, Daniel, Ephraim, Frank and Gideon-who live all alone in their potato patch and wish they didn't. When Adam (Howard Keel), the eldest, gets himself a wife (Jane Powell) by singing one of those rare ballads (When You're in Love) with love in the music as well as in the words, the other brothers celebrate their single cussedness by yowling a funeral Lament (for a lonesome polecat) that should fracture even the toughest audience...
...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...
...Brier Patch. Granny has built herself a comfortable house, with a guest room that is almost always occupied by a visiting missionary, and a kitchen that seems crowded day and night by neighbors. She refuses all offers of a vacation in the U.S. simply because she is afraid something will prevent her from getting back...
...feel just like Brer Rabbit when he reared back in the brier patch. I'm just where I want to be," she explains. "I don't know a woman in the U.S. I'd want to change places with...
Could the U.S. act to patch the hole? Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, in a series of speeches across the continent, laid down the five conditions for U.S. military intervention in Indo-China: I) "an invitation from the present lawful authorities"; 2) "clear assurance of complete independence to Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam"; 3) "evidence of concern by the United Nations"; 4) "a joining in the collective effort of some of the other nations of the area"; and 5) "assurance that France will not itself withdraw from the battle until it is won." No one really thought these conditions...