Word: allowance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...with four stowaways-the Marx Brothers-and how they manage to get off a luxury liner. The entire film is a chase, with Groucho, Chico, Harpo, and Zeppo in front and the captain and his crew behind. The running stops from time to time to allow for the situations, which are about as hilarious as anything the four zanies have ever done...
...concert with many other Americans, allow me to utter a hearty "aye" to the sentiments expressed by Lieut. Paul C Hawkins in his letter published in the July 29 issue...
...prevailing winds. The word from the White House last week was that the President would try to stay out of political controversy, try to keep out of the news, make few trips, do little campaigning. He would also make efforts to choke off unseemly intra-administration rows, once more allow the nation to feel that it was moving in peace & calm...
Claudio Arrau (rhymes with allow), who does such things with authoritative aplomb, is a trim, dapper 43-year-old who looks like a fugitive from a Man of Distinction ad. He likes to wear maroon ties with matching handkerchief jutting out of his coat pocket. Along with Bohemian-born Rudolf Serkin, he is in the middle generation of top pianists, a step below such artistic and box office champions as Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Schnabel and Artur Rubinstein, and a step above such youngsters as Eugene List, William Kapell and Eugene Istomin. He is one of the most tireless of them...
...layoff of 450 Disney employes, almost half the studio's staff. Replied General Manager John F. Reeder: the new pay schedule (a 25% increase-an estimated $1 million-a-year boost in the payroll) put into effect on the demand of the Screen Cartoonists Guild would not allow the studio to keep on going full blast with a reasonable hope of profit. Work would have to stop, said he, on all but four feature productions (Song of the South, Fun and Fancy Free, How Dear to My Heart, All in Fun). Workers on all other projects would have...