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...girl who disapproves. Their squabbles over the ring, and his adventures in it, are about the dullest part of the show. It bounces to life in Jack Warden's amusing, likable performance as a fight manager, most notably when he goes fully clothed, on business, to a steam room. The show turns sprightly once again when a bunch of neighborhood tykes warble Uh-Huh, Oh Yeah. It tingles pleasantly when Barbara McNair and Lonnie Sattin sing Fair Warning and reprise All of These and More. And it looks nice, thanks to William and Jean Eckart's sets...
...hand-scale reign undisputed. In the hot days of July ices-and-syrup went at a nickel a cup to kids tossing a Spaulding above heads too busy to notice them, and in December the chestnut men huddled in doorways while their cookers sent up thin jets of steam into the frenzied...
...same track as the 5:18, just as crowded and already behind schedule, the steam-driven 4:56 from Cannon Street was headed out for Ramsgate and the channel coast. Overhead, on the viaduct that crosses the main lines on the southeastern edge of London, an electric local was inching forward. At precisely 6:20, in a moment of ghostly horror, the blanket of fog was lit by a blinding blue flash. St. John's grimy brick houses rocked to a crash that sounded, said one resident, "like the explosion of a ton of bombs." Plunging ahead...
Yesterday New York awoke. Steam-heat husbands emerged from suburban incubators and made their careful ways to the street-corner. There were no subways. Court orders and oratory notwithstanding, the trainmen stayed home on Monday...
...final signal, giant control rods will lift slowly out of the uranium reactor core to start a sustained chain reaction. At the moment the reactor "goes critical," a flow of 508° F. water will pass through the core chamber, starting a nuclear process that eventually will produce steam to generate electric power. After three years and $110 million spent by the U.S. and the Duquesne Light Co. on the Ohio Valley plant, the nation's sluggish private atomic energy program will show its first practical results...