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...Floyd tries to recruit some beer-guzzling publicans for his choir, he scandalizes the pastor, who is devoted to muscular Christianity ("Yes, Christ is alive today, out in the field batting for us"). When Floyd laces into his choirwomen for turning the house of prayer into a den of cake sellers, the outraged ladies sing like hornets. Bank Teller Floyd has always regarded his life as a deposit for his wife and three kids, but when he fails to expire on schedule ("I wish he'd die and have done with"), they up and leave...
...Cake sales and community dances brought assembly-men and city councilors before the local public. Clubs, women's luncheon groups, and cocktail party statesmen served notice on the Democratic machine that they were tired of grubby candidates the calibre of Jimmy Roosevelt and Richard Graves. Years '52-'56 were the years of building, the hours of the amateur and the liberal, November mornings with young men like Richard Richards. Issues became important...
...sergeant's life looks like a piece of cake, all right, but then the scriptwriter starts to apply the Hollywood icing, and what glop it is. The sergeant has hardly anything to do with ordinary enlisted men, spends most of his time giving unsolicited advice to colonels and generals, who seem enormously impressed and grateful. The C.O. of his squadron, a lieutenant colonel (Efrem Zimbalist Jr.), falls in love with the sergeant's daughter (Natalie Wood), but the sarge does not think the colonel is good enough for his girl. So one day at the base he chews...
...returned to show business (after a 1½-year absence) to star in her first live TV drama. The play that caught Margaret's fancy: Iris, the story of an eligible spinster, aged 31, who refused to rush things with her undependable steady (Ray Montgomery). "Like a cake in the oven," she tells him, "you open the door too soon, you ruin it." In the end, though, Iris bravely chucked the cad when she realized he was not returning her love, only her kisses, and, with what the script called "a fine, quiet steadiness," was called upon to sigh...
...Communists and the Poujadistes in opposition. With victory secured, Gaillard and Bourges climbed into a new Citroen and joined Mme. Gaillard at the Brasserie Lipp, a Left Bank restaurant which is the traditional spot for French Premiers to celebrate their election to or ejection from office. There, a birthday cake topped with a model of the Assembly building awaited him. As he prepared to cut into it, Assembly President Andre Le Troquer protested. "Don't cut up the Assembly! You've already had enough trouble pasting those pieces together...