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...drama. In a hotel suite before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced as the Arch Fiend. But when the early morning papers dub it a potential hit, the hatchets are put away and the harps begin to twang again...
Socially, young Tallulah went like a house afire, but her stage career languished in flop after flop. She dreamed of London. Every year she and Estelle Winwood would call on an old Scottish woman named Mrs. Bunce, who told fortunes in a Manhattan brownstone. Mrs. Bunce's routine was to open a Bible and poke a needle into it for an omen. One year, probing for Tallulah's future, the needle stuck on the name Jezebel. "Oh, that's terrible," said Estelle. "Jezebel was thrown to the dogs." "Yes," throbbed Tallulah, "but first she rode with kings...
Vice-Presidential Candidate Alben Barkley was the big attraction for Democratic Day. Illinois Democratic leaders hoped that Barkley would stand the farmers on their ears with a great speech-the way he had roused the convention at Philadelphia. But Barkley was a flop...
...Round. Vaccination against flu, doctors agree, cannot do anybody much harm. But does it do any good? It worked during the flu epidemics of 1943 and 1945. But it was a flop in 1947, according to a study of students at the University of Chicago. Combined influenza A and B virus vaccine was injected into 790 students; another 1,230 students were not vaccinated. During the epidemic, exactly the same percentage of each group (9.5%) came down with flu. Severity of the attack was about the same in each group; 2.5% of the vaccinated and 2.26% of the unvaccinated were...
...hysteria; 2) called the Soviet Union "the strongest bulwark for peace." As predicted, the platform came out as the prototype of the Wallace Progressive Party platform. There was only one deviation. Henry Wallace thought "progressive capitalism" could be saved; the Communists believed that any kind of capitalism was a flop, not worth salvaging...