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...strolling player-or was he a wandering minstrel, or even a poet?-pitched his tent on Broadway last week. The show he proceeded to put on-The Lady's Not for Burning (see above)-made the very neon signs flush with youthful colors; the street's familiar smells of cheap popcorn and theatrical ham were overblown with a strangely innocent perfume. In the midst of the prosaic November which for decades has frozen the English-speaking stage, poetic roses were all at once in bloom...
...dictator in his right mind would live in Washington's historic Blair-Lee House for a minute. Its severe, four-story facade rises almost flush with the sidewalk on broad, busy Pennsylvania Avenue. Its two entrances are only ten steps above street level. Unless the blinds are drawn, passers-by can peer up into its shutter-framed, white-curtained windows. But if Harry Truman had any misgivings for his safety when he moved into the old residence two years ago while the White House was being made over, he gave no sign of it. Only the Secret Servicemen worried...
With less than half a minute of the fight remaining, the battered, bleeding La Motta suddenly saw an opening, fired his first good salvo of the evening. A right hook caught Dauthuille flush on the jaw, gave ringside cameramen one of the finest knockout pictures of the season (see cut). Jake's sudden come-alive finish left some sportwriters unimpressed ("manufactured melodrama," one called it), but it saved Jake's title by the barest of margins: the fight had only 13 seconds to go when Dauthuille was counted...
...sergeant, guarding three captured Reds, waved the barrel of his M-1 rifle at one of the prisoners, a sulky shaven-headed youth obviously not out of his teens. "This kid's a speed boy," the sergeant said to a U.S. correspondent. "We flush these three out of a paddy field, and this one tries to cut out. I don't want to shoot him, because we want to question him. So I just run him down. He was talking English like a professor from Yale College when we caught him," said the sergeant. "Come on, speed...
...Also called hot flush. Dr. Lincoln notes that the best description of this symptom was given to her by an ex-logger, a 200-lb. man of 65: "Suddenly a wave of heat sweeps up from the soles of my feet to the crown of my head. I get kind of faint and I can't think straght. It only lasts a few seconds." Injections of male sex hormones, Author Lincoln reports, gave him "dramatic relief...