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During his 25 years in the labor movement, burly, narrow-eyed Joseph S. Fay has often been called a racketeer. But calling Joe Fay names, or trying to unseat him as international vice president of the Union of Operating Engineers, was like blowing peas at an elephant. Sometimes he simply turned his beefy back. Some times, enraged or full of whiskey, he used his fists. Once he slugged the A.F. of L.'s David Dubinsky; another time he kicked in a minor labor leader's cheek bone. But neither taunts, rivals nor the law really bothered Joe Fay...
Author Morley's current team mate is veteran comedian Frank Fay (Harvey); last week Professor Brogan's was Banker H. W. Auburn. Asked by Morley on what date U.S. citizens set off firecrackers, Auburn ventured: "I should say that would be on this day when all the children come 'round and turn out your dustbins." Cracked Fay: "Rubbish." Brogan knew it was the Fourth of July; the British team also knew that cherry pie was eaten on George Washington's birthday, that trees were planted on Arbor...
Neither Morley nor Fay knew what famous British agitator (John Wilkes) was half of an American city (WilkesBarre) and two-thirds of an American murderer (John Wilkes Booth). But the U.S. team correctly identified "The Tate" (London art gallery), "The Reform" (political club), and "Bart's" (St. Bartholomew's Hospital...
...TIME'S sincere apologies to General and Mrs. Joseph Stilwell and to their good friend Mrs. Fay for the mixup, and the back of its hand to International News Photos, which caused the mixing...
...lifeboat of a torpedoed ship, starts the picture quavering with a nervous breakdown, and soon involves herself in circumstances calculated to pass it on to her audience. She moves upstate, for a rest cure, to a quiet old sugar plantation, run by an uncle & aunt (John Qualen, Fay Bainter) whom she has never seen before. Also on hand are: a chenille-voiced character named Mr. Sidney (Thomas Mitchell), who seems to have some curious authority over her genteel relatives; an overseer (Elisha Cook Jr.), who starts courting her with all the cozy intimacy of a vampire bat; and a local...