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Ralph Blane's music and lyrics are only mediocre. One number, Goin' On a Hayride, stands out in my mind, but the rest are ordinary "hear 'em today, forget 'em tomorrow" tunes. The music seemed generally better than the maudlin lyrics, but in most cases the production numbers were well outside of the plot line...
...Labor and many newspapers, if he would try to rid the Senate of McCarthy. But he was afraid, he couldn't beat the man whose methods he has long deplored in private conversation. Following the more-ancient-than-honorable rule "if you can't lick 'em, join 'em," he will go on the ticket with Joe. Kohler's announcement left no strong opposition to McCarthy's bid for renomination and reelection. Joe was magnanimous about it all. "He [Kohler] would have made an excellent Senator," he said...
...borrows money from the till to play the horses and plans to pay it back when he hits a winner, many a warehouseman never got around to making up the shortage. Explained one grainman: "It has been going on for years. It just sort of crept up on 'em. Fellow would start out and maybe borrow a car of grain. Before you know it, he's involved and can't square up. CCC never was a business operation-too much of a family affair...
...which Britons remember with firecrackers the anniversary of the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot" on Parliament, and that gave Samson an idea. "Let's build up a nice pile of grenades," he suggested to Sergeant "Dolly" Duncan. "Then, when the Commies come, we'll let 'em have it." Dolly agreed, and the two set to work filling a trench with hand grenades and chuckling over the Guy Fawkes surprise they were planning...
...performance in battle: superior speed below 25,000 feet, better diving speed, a fine electronic computing gunsight, better pilots. "If I could have a couple of sessions against those characters in one of their own planes," said a U.S. airman last week, "I could really show 'em some tricks...