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...their Sunday best, singing America and politely waiting to be arrested. Said one Short Creek leader: "This raid will give us $10 million worth of publicity." The governor hoped that most of the men would not only get prison terms but fines, which might enable the state to attach their property and raze the town. But polygamists are difficult to convict. Perhaps the Short Creek colony was finished, or perhaps it had just been given a big shot...
...Margaret off to Southern Rhodesia for the Cecil Rhodes centenary celebration, British tongues were wagging over the announcement that R.A.F. Group Captain Peter Townsend, an equerry to Queen Elizabeth and one of Margaret's favorite escorts, had been transferred from the royal household to the post of air attaché in Brussels. The move came soon after U.S. press reports that Margaret "is in love" with the handsome captain. Had the royal family acted to head off a match with a man who is not only a commoner but 38, divorced and the father of two children? British newshens...
...America." As the show begins, folksy Washington Hostess Mrs. Sally Adams (Ethel Merman), a lady not unlike Minister to Luxembourg Perle Mesta, is taking her oath as U.S. Ambassador to the Grand Duchy of Lichtenburg. In Lichtenburg, almost everybody-including Princess Vera-Ellen, Foreign Minister George Sanders and Press Attaché Donald O'Connor-seems willing to break into a song or a dance at the drop of a cue. There are some plot complications about an American loan to Lichtenburg, but politics yields mostly to gags, pratfalls and love. By the fadeout, Madam Ambassador has not only...
...picture gives Donald O'Connor, as the irrepressible press attaché, an opportunity to display his pleasant singing voice and limber legs. It also gives veteran Movie Villain George Sanders a chance to play a romantic role for a change, which he does attractively, and to sing for the first time on the screen in an agreeable lyric bass voice...
...training itself than impressing the public. There should be some graduate students, to boost the level of debate, but not so many as would shadow undergraduate efforts. Although a good share of the members will hold membership cards in existing political clubs, none of the congress's parties should attach itself to them. For that might scare off the very silent partners on the college political scene the congress is supposed to attract. Selecting initial membership from the Houses, and Union distinctly non-political bodies, could avoid this. Inside the congress, of course, parties can be as partisan as they...