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...Buffalo, the sensation-of-the-week was one Edward O'Dea, who toured downtown gin mills after having publicly taken a poke at U.S. Senator Jim Mead. Fort Worth had something to goggle about, too. Publisher Amon Carter. Fort Worth's native sun, moon and stars who embarrasses even Texans by his Texasity. had reserved two whole floors of the Blackstone Hotel for guests at his daughter's wedding. In Atlanta, the Tulip Show made wonderful conversation: it had been necessary to import 45,000 plants because local flowers had bloomed two weeks too soon...
...nothing to do with Florida's night life, shunned cocktail parties and dinners ("If you go you have to return invitations") and, as a rule, refused to get into a boiled shirt. As always, he had no use for golf, gambling, the races, fishing, or "that damned gin rummy." Work was his play. He had never bothered to learn the small tricks by which lesser fry relax...
...beefed about the Government's method of selling liquor and beer. They had to pay 50? for a permit, had to wait in slow-moving queues at one of the four Government retail stores. If they were lucky, they got four quarts a month of Canadian rye or gin, or two of imported liquors. Attached to each bottle was an admonition to take it straight home...
Later the Ranee, clad in a thick grey wool skirt and a sand-colored velour tunic, sipped gin from a Venetian goblet in her tiny, cramped studio, told what the Raja's cession was all about. "My daughters," she beamed, indicating a row of family portraits on the mantelpiece. "That's really why. We've got three gorgeous daughters (thank God for them) but no son, though God knows we've tried hard enough...
...topnotch performances. Radio Sports Announcer Paul Douglas makes a solid character-tough, vicious, yet somehow comic-of Harry Brock. Judy Holliday (Kiss Them for Me), with her flat voice, slow takes and floozie walk, is often wonderful as the blonde. When she sorts her cards in a gin-rummy game, Broadway gets one of the great comedy moments of the season...