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Trudgery & Tomato Juice. The debate lasted nearly 20 hours. Twenty times, the tired members trudged to the division lobbies. The Commons bar and cafeteria remained bravely open all night. At 3 a.m., pale but still smiling, Barmaid Doris staggered in with an armful of tomato juice cans, mixed the members' latest favorite cocktail-tomato juice, sherry and Worcester sauce...
Australia seems to be feeling more tolerant toward the uninhibited Yanks (who were never a patch on uninhibited Australians). A Melbourne barmaid overheard two Yankee voices last week. "Coo," she sighed, "It's Americans you are! My, I wish we had you back." To get them back, Calwell offered U.S. veterans special bonuses and aids. His immigration propagagandists turned on the heat. A brochure printed for distribution from Australian consulates in the U.S. called up memories of "those high, clear skies, the rollers at Bondi's [Beach] and the surfers' paradise, the hurly-burly of King...
Working girls at Prestwick, Scotland, thronged around his plane as if he were a combination of Tyrone Power and Laurence Olivier. Queen Mary, a woman with no nonsense about her, was openly captivated. Cried a London barmaid: "Nobody can say anything but the best about Ike." Taxi drivers, fishmongers, newspapermen echoed her words. In Luxembourg, street crowds chanted "Ike! Ike! Ike!" in the most undignified and friendly manner possible. U.S. occupation troops in Austria. Italy and Germany seemed to forget that they were fed up with garrison duty...
...Counting as a barmaid any waitress who serves intoxicating drinks...
...Juan Quilligan (20th Century-Fox), a study in the farcical consequences of bigamy, examines the temptations which beset a none-too-bright barge captain (William Bendix) at each end of the Brooklyn-Utica haul. In Brooklyn, Captain Quilligan falls for a barmaid (Joan Blondell) who laughs and sings just like his sainted mother (rest her soul). In Utica, he is hopelessly enmeshed by a homebody (Mary Treen) whose cooking is more wonderful than anything the captain has tasted in the ten years since mother passed on (rest her soul...