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Ford denied it; the U.A.W. was coy. But there was ample foundation for the belief that Young Henry would make the U.A.W. an ample offer. Young Henry wants more than anything else to make Ford first in automobiles. He also has a strong leaning toward his grandfather's tradition of high wages and low prices. If he could beat other motor manufacturers to the draw with a U.A.W. wage settlement, he might well be away out in front in the great race to feed the hungry market for new motorcars...
Catering to San Francisco's upper middle class, paternalistic, 79-year-old O'Connor, Moffatt's has displayed its wares in a subdued, take-it-or-leave-it fashion, seldom allowed promotion to go beyond coy plugs for its bridal department, shied shudderingly from any stock line, ad, or antic smacking of the sensational. Example: last year O'C.M. turned down an Adrian-designed dress line as "too Hollywood"; the rival City of Paris across the street snapped it up, did handsomely...
...time. People who like first-rate finesse will enjoy bits of brisket from Kurt Weill's musical ribroast, the most teasing twists in Ira Gershwin's lyrics, and Alan Mowbray pretending to be Eric Blore pretending to be George Washington. People who like oafishly coy satire about on a par with summer-camp imitations of Gilbert & Sullivan will find stretches of that. Between these broad extremes, however, the show rumbles along Technicolorfully and, on the whole, quite amusingly, with some really bright spots and a lot of others so shamelessly silly that you enjoy them anyway...
After the Fact. There was no immediate explanation why the official news was held up. Downing Street was mum; the White House was coy and confused. Best guess was that Joe Stalin had held up the joint announcement either because: 1) his Ukrainian armies still faced a small segment of determined Nazis in Moravia, or 2) he was not yet ready to set off Russia's victory celebration. Finally, from London, came word that the official announcement would come the following day. Thus, for the history books, May 8, 1945, became...
Ballets that aim to be folksy stuff often manage to be coy, condescending, phony. But Fancy Free is as genuinely native as a buck-&-wing on a xylophone. Three bored sailors tank up and pursue three slick chicks. Some of the action is more like expert pantomime than dancing. The pantomime is often nearly as funny as that of the late great Joe Jackson, the Tramp Bicyclist. The dancing is superb -acrobatic, "specialty," rumba, softshoe, adagio, eccentric, jitterbugging, knee-drops, slapstick, and a violent, half-hidden free-for-all on the floor behind the bar. Fancy Free's success...