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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...want to take part in the drinking, but are dragged in ... Last Christmas I saw four girls come out of an office building and go reeling down the sidewalk so intoxicated they could hardly stand. None could have been more than 20 years old. It was a shameful sight. I hope employers will look into this practice and try to devise some more appropriate kind of party...
...away from bright lights, with a full view of the sky. The fireworks will start about 9 p.m. Moon glow will be at a minimum as the moon is just entering its first quarter. Toward midnight, when the meteors are at their best, it will be out of sight, over the horizon...
...Proper Importance. Although Giles now makes enough money to indulge his passion for cars (he lost the sight of his right eye in a motor accident) and to live on a prosperous farm in Suffolk, he has not forgotten his working-class origins. Londoners like best his stock characters, such as cockneys, hard-boiled moppets (one proudly reported that he had not only spotted spring's first cuckoo, but shot it with his air rifle) and the Giles "family." This includes beefy, solid Dad and Mum, a scrawny pig-tailed schoolgirl, two older homely sisters, a horrid, runty little...
Leon Keyserling, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, likes to dream big. A year ago, he thought the U.S. would soon have a gross national product of $300 billion. With that goal already in sight (TIME, Dec. 4), Keyserling last week started dreaming again. Said he: under the stimulus of war spending, the gross national product should rise to $500 billion...
...Milkman's four scripters have tried to-use it wherever possible as a springboard for visual comedy in the silent-movie tradition. Unfortunately, the effort too often is no more inventive than the second-rate dialogue that overburdens Comedian Durante. The picture brightens considerably whenever the sight gags pay off, e.g., Durante cooking the breakfast eggs, toast and coffee on an electric blanket...