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With Billy DcWolfe and Hermione Gingold, a huge cast, an army of writers, and a program promising thirty-three scenes, Almanac certainly has everything but the kitchen sink. The sink isn't important, but a disposal unit would help. Stripped of many scenes and corresponding hardly at all to the program, John Murray Anderson's bloated revue still forges along for three hours. There is obviously enough material to fill another hour or two, but on Tuesday at least, the show called it quits at 11:30 and sprung a hasty finale on an audience settling down for the night...
...other hand, it does seem sort of strange," he mused. "After all, precipitation since January is already 13 inches above normal, and snow this late in April is unseasonal." Then he muttered something about stratopheric winds and the Gulf Stream, peeked into the Old Farmer's Almanac, and announced: "It will all be over by noon...
When radio's Information Please was looking for someone to help ex-New York Timesman John Kieran edit its almanac, it picked a man from the rival Herald Tribune: City Editor Joe Herzberg. Manhattan-born Herzberg, who started on the Trib as an 18-year-old copy boy, never finished college. But he knows his city like the palm of his hand, and in his encyclopedic memory, say staffers, is "everything from baseball to Bach." Joe Herzberg once wrote in his own book, Late City Edition: "A modern newspaper is Thucydides sweating to make a deadline...
...review neither contained nor implied criticism of events at Fatima, or of any religious beliefs. Instead, it condemned the producers of this film for debasing a sensitive religious theme into an irreligious sideshow. Comparisons between the event and its movie facsimile were based on information from "The National Catholic Almanac...
Franklin first expounded his theory in a small pamphlet printed in Philadolphia and called "Poor Richard's Almanac". In the 1756 issue, Franklin wrote. "When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them for another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat and money in your pocket is better and more creditable than a write on your back and no money to take it off." This was greeted with stony disapproval by the struggling cloak-and-suit industry...