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...revolutionize U.S. postwar agriculture. Some of FORTUNE'S findings: > An enclosed tractor cab with self-starter, heater, cigar lighter, windshield wiper and radio. The manufacturer now plans to air-condition the cab, so that a farmer may "spread manure on frozen January fields while listening to the Aladdin Lamp program in a cab set at a steady 72°, or ride through 130° Kansas heat without raising a drop of sweat...
...used Technicolor to create a fabulous spectacle, but he does not take his work too seriously. The tale pokes fun at itself and slyly cuckolds the Hays office. In Nights there is a tubby old boy who claims to have been "the Bag of Bagdad." There is an Aladdin (John Qualen) whose companions jeer: "You've told that lamp story so often you believe it yourself." There is a Sinbad (Shemp Howard) whose refrain is: "This calls to mind an experience I once had as a sailor." And there is a harem which does bumps and grinds and makes...
Undergraduates won't have to rub any Aladdin's lamp to find themselves thrilling thousands with their voices, or to have the satisfaction of building up popular radio programs, because this evening the Crimson Network is prepared to offer them these opportunities if they come to a meeting at 7 o'clock in Sheppard Hall studios...
...turkey dinners, and a quartet of carol singers in Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children's entertainments, seemed to evoke Christmas memories...
they will see that this Rebecca is a $2,400-a-week Hollywood specialist with no mortgage to pay off, no mean Minnie Smellie to complicate her life, no need at all for a Mr. Aladdin to make her dreams come true...