Word: thing
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Sure Thing. The committee was staggered by Willie's report of election winnings in 1948. Said he: "I didn't win too much on horses that year. But I had a sure thing going for me. I had President Truman ... I win $10,000 on that Dewey don't carry New York City by 640,000, even money." Asked by the eager committee how he bet this year, Willie looked puzzled. "There's no outstanding candidate this year, is there? . . . Just the race track this year...
...they attack Seoul first, they can be made to suffer. One thing the U.S. has proved in Korea is that it can hold tight perimeters at relatively small cost to itself while inflicting heavy losses on the enemy. Some Pentagon men were saying last week that Mao Tse-tung would not like to pay the price of prolonged sieges of U.S. beachheads, buttressed by all the fire power that artillery, airplanes and warships could bring to bear. And even if the Chinese should force the U.N forces to abandon the Seoul-Inchon perimeter, they would have a still harder...
...music & lyrics by Harold Rome; sketches by Arnold Auerbach; produced by Herman Levin and Oliver Smith) is sometimes pleasant but never for long. Virtually everyone connected with it has more to boast of than the show itself. It's brightly colored but badly tended; the whole thing needs weeding, even the better things need watering. It looks about as a Broadway revue should look-perhaps in New Haven-three weeks before it opens on Broadway...
...backbone of any really sophisticated revue is the skits and those in Bless You All again & again fall flat. For one thing, their targets are usually as obvious as their aim is erratic. Perhaps the liveliest number is the most elaborate: a take-off of a 1960 presidential campaign conducted entirely by television. The show overworks Comic Jules Munshin, who is pleasant to have around now & then, and overtaxes Comedienne Mary McCarty, who can perform-but not miracles...
Once the Kettle. This sort of thing may strike the average man as harmless pother, but not Author Rinn. At 82, he is a onetime Manhattan produce broker and skilled amateur magician who has spent most of a lifetime trying to expose fake mediums as "the vilest gang of crooks that ever lived." No magician at writing a book, Rinn has nonetheless succeeded in presenting a bulky and formidable blast against spiritualism in all its forms...