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...most engaging personality was George Brown's as Frederick. Along with his properly idealistic and star-struck look, he also has a good voice. As his misguided but well-intentioned nurse, Anne Hardwood behaved like a fugitive from Medea; a bit frantic but riproaring. The Major-General was played most modelly by Owen Jander; from his House of Lords gait to his Victorian disdain, Jander was excellent...
...autobiography) that she was discovered under a sunflower in Emporia, Kans. by her foster parents, married four times and spent money faster than she could inherit or divorce it. She called her saloons "salons," outfitted them with overstuffed divans because she felt too many heads got broken by the hardwood chairs in Competitor Texas Guinan's ginmills, served 30 days in 1931 after Feds raided her 58th Street Country Club, went broke after Repeal and spent her last 20 years in a one-room Manhattan apartment...
Transport is spotty, and bricks arrive at building sites battered and bruised, soon fall to pieces. Indoors, the Russians put in hardwood floors while construction is still under way; by the time work is finished, floors are gouged and pitted. But Smith tempered his criticism with the reminder that "it's unfair to relate their standards to our standards. The Russians are intelligent people with an insuperable housing shortage. There's been a tremendous raising of standard of housing. They want to learn how to do better...
...lightskinned, they wear little except bright body paint, with a pair of feathers stuck at a Daliesque angle in holes pierced in each nostril. A pure Stone Age people, they hate all strangers, live only to hunt, fight and kill. Their most notable products are needle-sharp, 9-ft. hardwood spears for use against human foes. Their neighbors, the Jivaro Indians, Ecuador's famed, ferocious headhunters, are said to pale with fear at the very mention of the primitive Aucas. All this the missionaries knew, as they flew in with their families to a jungle camp near Auca territory...
...rich "got-rocks," Big Jim now has plenty of rocks himself (slices of an insurance agency and a battery business). He believes in the maxim: "Make no small plans." Big Jim has big plans for Alabama and for himself. As a sample, he had a special $32,000 hardwood dance floor installed in the Alabama Cattle Coliseum for his inaugural ball. Lazily, he waved to the crowd, called out his campaign catch phrase: "Hitch up them mules, boy, it ain't a goin' to rain." Speaking at the stately white capitol, he pawed absently at his cutaway...