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...Con You Top This? is predicated on the sure-fire principle that every man has an irresistible urge to tell his favorite wheeze. The program is nothing but jokes, good, bad and indifferent, and there is nothing quite like it on the U.S. air. Some 10,000,000 steady listeners send in an average 10,000 jokes (90% of them unusable) a week. Four or five are chosen and told on the program by red-haired Peter Donald, actor and dialectitian. The decibels of laughter from the studio audience are registered on a "laughmeter." After each joke the Senator...
Three terse, vivid pages of description open the novel and set the scene. The main factory of Elmdown Aircraft Co. Ltd. comprises acres of windowless con crete camouflaged in a misty hollow in the South Midlands, ten miles from the nearest town. Says Priestley, "take away these drawing offices, these toolmakers' sheds, these long rows of machines, these workers on assembly, and within ten days the whip is at your back. All the brave, drilled men, willing to rush toward death, all the flags and national anthems, all the patriotic speeches, cannot rescue a people now. Without such factories...
Franklin Roosevelt, fighting a rear-guard action against inflation, last week ordered his aides to think up some new tactics. His price lieutenants jumped in with the usual set of one-page memos of their ideas, for him to cull and con. Soon, perhaps in the first fireside chat since February, the plans will be unfolded. The usual "informed sources" said that the tentative program, subject to change without notice, will include...
...Wynn's new revue begins August 30. Sanders Theatre Concerts Boston Symphony Orchestra Second Programme, July 25 Under the direction of Bernard Zighera Toccata, Bouree, and GigaScarlatti-Casella Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major Shubert I. Allegro II. Andante con moto III. Menuetto: Allegro molto: Trio IV. Allegro vivace Pavane pour une Infante defunte Ravel Capriccio Ibert Suite No. 1 from "Pulcinella," Ballet (after Pergolesi) Stravinsky I. Sinfonia (Overture): Allegro moderate II. Serenata: Larghetto III. a. Scherzino b. Allegro c. Andantino IV. Tarantella V. Toccatta VI. Gavotta con due variazionl VII. Duetto VIII. a. Menuetto b. Finale Third Programme...
...while the world burned. But the new 78th poked cautiously along. Besides, there was nothing much to do in the way of legislating on a large scale. "Old Muley" Doughton had the tax bill before his House Ways & Means committee, and after a member had taken sides pro-or-con the Ruml Plan, he could drift on without mental travail-unless he was the serious kind of Congressman who faithfully attended all his committee meetings, answered his mail, ran errands for his constituents...