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...Grand Hotel, 1932 with Garbo, sums up a lot about the Golden Age--it's crummy, really, but irresistable because there's just so much glam. With the Barrymore's, Joan Crawford and Wallace Beery. Along with it at Quincy House is Astaire and Rogers' Top Hat, whence cometh "Cheek to Cheek" and others. Many people's favorite--not mine, but wonderful by definition. Music is Irving Berlin...
Edward Heath's Conservative government is disliked by the miners. Says Joe Wheelan, an officer at the National Union of Mineworkers in Mansfield, a mining town near Nottingham: "Heath has love and a kiss on the cheek for the oil sheiks, but he has a slap in the face for the British miner." Adds a miner's wife: "Brother Heath's making it seem that if the miners lift their ban, then petrol rationing will be unnecessary. I just can't believe that. We're being used as scapegoats. The only thing he hasn...
Eaton, however, mentioned the "slap" to Wall Street Journal Reporter Fred L. Zimmerman and demonstrated it as a stinging blow to the cheek. Zimmerman later checked details with Cooney...
...afterward. What Nixon had actually asked, Kleizo recalled, was "something like, 'Are you the boy's grandmother or grandfather?' "-a more understandable slip of the tongue than the total confusion of gender reported originally. "Then," Kleizo continued, "he looked back and tapped me affectionately on the cheek, sort of like putting shaving lotion...
...made her work more difficult: "The A.P. complains that they have become the last to get any information since my husband was appointed Foreign Minister." For one thing, covering her husband's press conferences can be a trying experience. Though he often gives her a buss on the cheek on his way to the podium, Thorn likes to answer his wife's queries with such teasing asides as, "If Madame had arrived on time, she would know that question has already been asked." At one briefing, Thorn told his wife, "Now that's a very good question...