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...tall, grey-haired President Frederick Middlebush. Afterward in the living room he got a new round of laughter and applause by playing the Jenny Lind Polka as a piano duet with his sister, birdlike, 60-year-old Mary Jane Truman, and by giving her a brotherly poke with his elbow for making a mistake in her chording...
...economy. It grew, too, because of bureaucracy's inborn knack for propagating itself. And it grew because farmers had come to realize that when they stood together, a cohesive one-fifth of the nation's voters, they could manipulate the U.S. Congress and plunge both arms elbow-deep in the vaults under Fort Knox. Lumped together, the representatives of the predominantly agricultural states filled more than 218 seats of the House of Representatives, a cold majority. Many a Senator probably could stay in office a lifetime if he only succeeded in getting the votes of all his farm...
...revives on Broadway an old favorite of the '20s, while familiarizing Broadway with a new favorite of the provinces-theater-in-the-round. Both the play and the production have drawbacks, but both come off pleasantly enough. Performed on an arena-like stage with the audience at its elbow and on all four sides, Broadway's theater-in-the-round at times resembles theater-in-the-rough. But the illusion of life is quite as strong as with orthodox staging; what is diminished is the illusion of theater...
...Athlete's Deception" is base don the knowledge that the gem of the Bermuda social set in the smooth, casual rugby player. Seated comfortably in a hotel lobby, preferably that of the Elbow Beach Surf Club, and having engaged in the morning change of clothes by means of the first two articles mentioned above, the adventurer undertakes quiet conversation with available bunnies...
When he finished his Navy hitch in 1924, Godfrey no longer dreamed of the Naval Academy or the priesthood. Eager to elbow himself a place in the bustling business world of the '20s, he brought $2,000 in Navy "winnings" back home to Hasbrouck Heights. But his father had died and the fat roll of bills disappeared in settling family debts. Soon he was in a familiar position-on his uppers in a strange city. The city was Detroit where, desperately answering a blind ad, he found himself a door-to-door salesman of cemetery lots. By drawing heavily...