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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that another musical with a New York theme was about due, a month or so having lapsed since the last one. Consequently there are a couple of songs in which the chorus shouts loud hosannas for such things as Rockefeller Center, the subway system, Lord & Taylor (remember the dear dead days when everybody was singing songs about Macy's?), and, of course, Fifth Avenue. "From Dubuque to Westminster Abbey they want the Fifth Avenue Look," they chant. And there's the inevitable song about how lonely a fellow can be in this big town with all the people 'round. This...
...attitudes of the victors were also obscure. After the seven were dead, MacArthur granted freedom to all remaining "Class A" war criminals except two who were already on trial. MacArthur asked for a day of prayer throughout Japan...
Twenty-four hours later, the guerrillas withdrew and the family returned to the house. In the garden they found the lifeless bodies of George and his son. They also found eight dead guerrillas outside the house, three more inside...
Lily-White Lynn. Young Patrick learned to skate in British Columbia. But from the time he was five years old his mother was dead set against his choosing hockey as a career. Says Lynn: "Mother didn't want to see her lily-white boy mixed up with those rough characters."† Instead, he was sent to the University of British Columbia to study dentistry. When he flunked out a year later, his father reluctantly agreed to let him play hockey: "I think he thought I'd be lousy and get it out of my system." Lynn practiced eight...
...people drink? Pollsters from the National Opinion Research Center, who went around asking, got a variety of answers. Said a Pennsylvania housewife: "People think you are dead if you don't." Said a schoolteacher from rural Wisconsin: "I guess just to be sociable. I don't care for it at all; I just choke it down." As a North Carolina building contractor expressed it: "When I drink I feel important." A Georgia farmer: "Drinking takes me right...