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...Siam's Premier Luang Pitul Songgram (pronounced Lwong Peboon Song-kram) was proving a capper, zealous little quisling. Japanese occupation forces were careful to remember that it is against Siamese custom to pat children on the head. But raging floods had driven thousands of Siamese from their homes, destroyed half the rice crop, brought on a famine which was increased by the shipping shortage. The Japanese felt it necessary to deny, by radio, that they were responsible for the drenching skies and swollen rivers...
...sucked into this cultural air pocket, seven sweethearts are after him like a pack of soprano hounds. Regina (Marsha Hunt), the stage-struck eldest, wants the reporter's hand because she thinks that he can put her name in lights. The middle five, slaves of an old Dutch custom giving first chance to the eldest, aid & abet the match for all their high Cs are worth although Billie (Kathryn Grayson), the youngest, loves him just for himself, but cannot bear to offend tradition by making off with...
Loyally the khaki-clad audience roared: "Yes!" Unwisely Conductor Stokowski asked: "How many say no?" Following an old U.S. custom, a lone dissenter piped...
...needed all his skill at parliamentary parrying of touchy subjects. Cocky Tom Driberg, Independent M.P., had risen in the House of Commons and asked the Prime Minister to "make friendly representations to the American military authorities asking them to instruct their men that the color bar is not a custom of this country." The Prime Minister thought the suggestion "unfortunate," hoped "'that without any action on my part the points of view of all concerned will be mutually understood and respected...
...annual custom to donate to the Varsity crew a new shell each spring, and his intense interest in the growth of successive Harvard crews was rivaled only by the general interest he took in every form of Harvard sports...