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...Fling us an F.P.A...
...maid sisters who toil and stint for him. Recently he has married an odd, unbalanced rich girl who is possessively happy with him only when they are hard up. Suddenly and mysteriously, Julian manages to get hold of a lot of money. He comes home, cocky and excited, to fling money about, shower everyone with presents, give his sisters passages to Europe and a paid-off mortgage...
...boot, sympathetic Burgess Meredith staging, and an uncluttered stage, Thurber can shoot straight at the audience. Out of his imagination has come a glorious and instructive world in which everyone is to some extent out of his mind. The demonstration begins at once, with four dancing couples stopping to fling out such remarks as: "She said he proposed something on their wedding night her own brother wouldn't have suggested." The demonstration continues with a round of well-known Thurber fables, and with a dry-mannered Tom Ewell as a TV pet counselor, and an amusing Paul Ford having...
Congressional Democrats, who have long championed mutual aid, at once complained that the program contained too few genuinely mutual, share-the-load projects. In this election year, they are only too eager to fling the President's free-spender charges right back at him. They promised to cut Ike down to size by lopping off $1 billion, possibly to tack the saving onto the embattled U.S. defense budget. "There is too much money and too little change in administration," said Montana's Mike Mansfield, the Senate Democratic whip. "Where is the joint foreign aid effort with other free...
...still enthusiastically rebellious, the Boys of '28 launched outright revoluton in April. They seized Dictator Gómez' Miraflores Palace (Gómez was away), grabbed all the guns they could find. They charged up the street toward San Carlos Barracks, where a confederate was supposed to fling open the gates and let them in. But the chief of the military forces arrived before the rebels, barred the gates and organized a stout defense. For the first time in his life, Rebel Betancourt fired a rifle. It was an ancient German weapon with a brutal kick. When...