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...shutout left predicted its imminent return to power, after the new Government's inevitable flop. Cried pro-Communist Socialist Pietro Nenni: "What goes out the window will come in the door." That was a clear cue for the U.S. not to let the new Government flop; it might be difficult to protect Ministers who are as inept as they are well-meaning...
...Aquacade was the supreme spectacle in Billy's spectacular career. But for a time, production and labor troubles threatened to make it the supreme flop. Said Rose hoarsely: "With such labor pains, it's sure to be a big baby." It was. It was the hit of the Fair (and later of the San Francisco Fair). It was the only major concession at the Fair that made a nickel. In two seasons, it made Billy more than $1,000,000 clear profit. Billy knows the reason: "All God's chillun...
Musicals were few but they were particularly adventurous and fresh. Finian's Rainbow and Brigadoon snubbed formulas while successfully serenading fantasy; and even such a flop as Beggars' Holiday had the courage of its confusions. Meanwhile, two generally effective musical plays, Street Scene and Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Medium, started battering down the partition between theater and opera...
...short-order man in Shorty's lunch counter after school and on weekends, is just the kind of kid the major leagues go after: big, cool and hardworking, with a good pair of hands. The scouts, baseball's ivory hunters, have seen plenty of high-school wonders flop in the big time-but Bobby Feller was only 17 when scouts found him in Van Meter, Iowa, and they always hope to find another. Among Bob Hansen's technical skills: a blinding fastball with which he mixes a tantalizing change of pace, a wide-breaking curve...
...amuse itself than the customers, had changed a little, but the boys still did the corny hat-throwing stunts that had drawn Miller fans around the bandstand. Said Tex: "It's corny, but Glenn was one for commercial corn. If you don't have it you flop...