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...with lines like "Now that I have found you," all sound the same and all sound banal. Jack Cole's wriggly, exotic dances are all much the same too, and elaborately meaningless, but they are sometimes decidedly clever. The skits and satiric ditties vary enormously. Many need the ax, many others the pruning knife, and even the best could use manicure scissors. But there are funny things in a take-off of a book-and-author luncheon, the plight of a man who has sworn off cigarettes, and a parody of a sentimental French chanteuse. Assisting-usually at their...
...husband, acquired after a whirlwind courtship in California. Alexander Carson is a big, good-natured bear of a man who spends his winters working as a private detective in New York and the football season playing center on Ottawa's professional team, the Rough Riders. The Murderous Ax, as he is known in his sporting circles, cares little about show business. He trails along patiently in his wife's ascending orbit, watching her diet, cooking her meals, patiently picking up her clothes. As for her career, "the kid's gettin' what she wants," says the Ax...
...street arabs, a fast-stepping floozy and other unfashionable outcasts. So, while neighboring missions gleam with the spick & span look of good work efficiently done, India's Jasmine Hall assumes more & more the look of a flophouse. When economizing U.S. mission inspectors arrive on a checkup, their budgetary ax falls on Jasmine Hall and India Severn's lifework is destroyed...
...operation on the C.I.O.'s Communist-line wing was performed with a meat ax by a stern and rejuvenated Philip Murray and his staff of strategists. Leaders of the biggest Red-run union of them all, the United Electrical Workers Union, did not even show their faces on the convention floor. They huddled in Cleveland's Allerton Hotel, sniffing the cold, strange wind and making distant and preposterous sounds of defiance. A day before they and their little brothers, the Farm Equipment Workers, were expelled, they packed their bags and fled...
Halo & Goodbye. It was Communst Party-Liner Harry Bridges who stood his ground. Party orders were to get into any kind of ideological sheep's clothing and stay, if possible, within the folds of C.I.O. With the ax poised over the remaining ten Communist-run unions, needle-nosed Harry intoned his innocence and righteousness in a rasping cockney voice. "To get rid of us, you are going to have to throw us out," he cried. "So now we have reached the point where a trade union, because it disagrees on political matters with the national C.I.O., can be expelled...