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Unlike many other natural history movies-especially some in the current Disney cycle-it is not flossed up with camera tricks or laff-riot editing. When Secrets' love-smitten pair of octopuses meet, they do not croon to each other Put Your Arms Around Me, Honey; they simply mate, an act whose essential mechanics are obscured by a romantic flailing of tentacles...
...reads in foreign newspapers that "I am inclined this way-or that"-in the cold war. "The world must realize that I am an Indian, and I am inclined only towards India." The best guess was that Nehru was just practicing the Song of India he intends to croon at the mid-April conference of Asian-African leaders at Bandung, Indonesia, where he must share top billing with that old spotlight-stealer, Red China's Chou Enlai. Nehru's ambition is to establish an "area of peace" around the Indian Ocean. Taking Chou En-lai's professions...
...bestseller: Teach Me Tonight (Abbott), with the DeCastro Sisters in a twangy, eagerly enunciated request for seduction. The melody is in the contralto, while the other girls warble country-alto above. No. 11 but climbing fast: The Naughty Lady of Shady Lane (Victor), in which the Ames Brothers croon their kind of bumdadabum, bumbum, bum in a shuffle rhythm, sing the praises of their heroine ("Me-o, myo what a girl") tongue-in-jowl, right up to the trick ending...
...solid hour of commercial as it unveiled an endless succession of Plymouths, Dodges, DeSotos, Chryslers. This, an announcer assured the nation, "is the night all America has been waiting for!" A covey of actors, including Groucho Marx, Ed Wynn, Danny Thomas and Eddie Mayehoff, were asked to coo and croon over convertibles, station wagons and sedans. In between plugs there were occasional songs by Betty Grable, horn tootings by Harry James and jokes by Ed Wynn. Groucho had nothing noncommercial to do except hide in the back seat of a roadster-and he did that badly. To many viewers, after...
...unbuttons his shirt collar, strides up and down before the jury box. At times he laughs, then he sneers, and then he seems to be on the verge of tears; first his voice roars out of the courtroom and echoes through the corridors, then it is a barely audible croon. Before he is through, the sweat is rolling down in rivers on his face and dripping from his chin to the floor. His style has gained him a nickname: "The Terror of Tellico Plains...