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...dinner of breast of capon on ham soothed no one; neither did Senator Kenneth Wherry, Nebraska undertaker and now the Republican floor leader, who wound up a luncheon speech by pleading: "Let's smile right now." The committeemen and women just couldn't see anything to smile about. There was a rebellion in the committee and the rebels were out to get Hugh Scott...
They ate Missouri ham and hominy grits and sang the parody of Tipperary. They got Harry Truman's autograph on menus and dollar bills. There was a great deal of joking and ribbing. Eugene Donnelly, the battery wit, announced to the President: "Now Battery D is going to give you something about as worthless as a Republican County chairman." Donnelly brought forth a package and began to unwrap it. Someone yelled: "Don't break it, you clumsy bastard." Donnelly finally pulled out a gold-headed cane which he presented to the President, who said emotionally that he would...
Lock Up the Safe. Actually, the musicians, not Cissy, had done the clutching. To help them out in their first year, she gave them, for a small percentage ("I still have to keep Cissy in ham & eggs"), use of both her Moore Theater and her talents as an impresario, which even her enemies admit are considerable...
Although the traditional whole roast ham will be rationed to a few slices, Stockholm Stringer E. Michael Salzer cabled that the customary lutfisk and schnapps were plentiful. As usual, he planned to be on hand for the huge bonfire on Skansen, the famous open-air museum overlooking the city, and the annual rendition of Tennyson's New Year's poem by Veteran Actor Anders de Wahl. Along with other male Dubliner's, Stringer Alan Montgomery may kiss as many girls as he can during the five minutes after midnight...
...months, like a ham actor overplaying a role, Hollywood has been beating its breast and wailing about the hard times. There is plenty of reason for wailing. Studios like Warner and RKO are carrying on only token operations; Eagle-Lion has suspended production. The foreign market is shot, the cost of making pictures has risen skyhigh, like everything else, and who can predict what damage television will eventually do to the movie industry...