Word: canteeners
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Then he heard a scream. Eleven-year-old Keene Freeman, son of famed Washington, D.C. neurologist Dr. Walter Freeman, had escaped his father's eye for a moment, and slipped into the racing torrent while trying to retrieve a canteen. He was headed for the falls. As the boy twisted toward the brink 80 feet away, Veteran Loos, like the other tourists, had a moment for decision. He made it. He vaulted the rail, floundered in icy, swirling power...
...more faltering skits than funny ones. Yet the show as a whole is as well-balanced as it is bright. It has fresh ideas, peppy dancing, agreeable tunes, clever lyrics. And it has likable performers, notably Comic Jules Munshin and pretty Comedienne Betty Garrett (Laffing Room Only). As a canteen hostess, half-crippled and half-crazy from trying to conga, rumba and samba, Actress Garrett brings down the house...
Ernie Bevin had been spoiling for this fight for 20 years. In the House of Commons canteen he gulped a cup of hot coffee and an unbuttered bun. Then he slumped down on his front bench to wait for the bell...
...House of Commons' kitchen committee faced facts. Many a Laborite M.P.-and some Tories, too-must live on a parliamentary salary of $2,400 a year, cannot afford to eat on the premises. Last week the committee set up a poor man's canteen. It featured a hot meal (soup, lamb or beef with potatoes, cabbage, apple pie) for 30?; tipping was banned. At that rate no member of the "world's best club" would have to bring his own lunch...
Because it has a waiting list of 30 servicemen, the Canteen has a rigid rule: anybody who misses two lessons is dropped. Last week a sailor who had been absent twice and a soldier who had missed three lessons asked for, and got, reinstatement. Their excuse for being away: they had been to Potsdam...