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...bring new hope for decent crops to the parched plains of Kansas, Iowa, the Dakotas, Nebraska and Minnesota. "It came just the way we like it, nice and slow," Iowa Hog Farmer Bob Helmbrecht said of the springtime moisture. A National Weather Bureau official called it simply "a godsend...
...such an unliveable situation, writes Tom Dardis in Some Time in the Sun, his account of the Hollywood screenwriting years of five American writers, the job that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered Fitzgerald was a godsend. Unfortunately, Dardis, who is anxious to refute Fitzgerald critic Arthur Mizner and others who have portrayed the writer demoralized and deteriorating under the California sun, attempts to equate Fitzgerald's happiness with the $1,250 paychecks he received in 1938 from MGM. Dardis gives a blow-by-blow account of how Fitzgerald secured his contracts, but almost completely omits Fitzgerald's much talked about affair...
...godsend for many shut-ins and others who are isolated from the community. For some enthusiasts, like Mrs. Patricia Schey ("Kissy Face") who monitors her "home base" 16 hours a day in Madison, Wis., it is more of a passion. Almost everyone, however, responds to what Manhattan Psychoanalyst Joel Kovel calls "CB's element of voyeurism." That aspect of the CB phenomenon has not been lost on Mitchell Brothers, the porno-film producers. They recently released an opus with the self-explanatory title C.B. Mamas...
...Beanpot, however, has proved a godsend for B.U. In 1974, the Terriers stunned B.C. when Neil Burns canned a game-winning bucket at the buzzer and went on to become the tourney's MVP. The 6'5" Burns is the senior co-captain of this year's B.U. quintet and has been the scourge of the opposition coming into the Beanpot, shooting a fiery 55 per cent from the floor...
...night must have 0intended it to be seen as a frothy little nightcap, a light aperitif after a long evening of more substantial diversion. But whoever it was, he or she was wrong. Not that running a show at midnight is a bad idea--on the contrary, it's godsend for dedicated theatergoers who want to pack in two productions a night. It's just that this show is so good it must almost inevitably become the piece-de-resistance of any evening's entertainment, making whatever came before pale in comparison...