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Lunch over, Harry Truman showed another side of his character. Spotting newsmen waiting outside Les Biffle's office, he shook hands all around and asked: "Did you ever have a bull or a load of hay fall on you? If you have, you know how I felt last night. I felt as if two planets and the whole constellation had fallen on me. I don't know if you boys pray, but if you do, please pray God to help me carry this load...
...Helen Hayes, ladylike leading lady of the stage, who once denounced the closing of Manhattan's burlesque theaters ("an encroachment on the rights of free Americans"), was surprised to see a small box ad for her currently touring Harriet merged with a burlesque comedy ad in a Los Angeles newspaper. The result: "Helen Hayes, in Harriet, hot as a robot bomb, A Honey in the Hay...
...Krueger's army. But when the armor tried to exploit its advantage, Krueger capitalized on the water-broken terrain, threw in his air force and destroyed the armor. With air power and airborne infantry, he cut the foe's communications. Then he turned his cavalry loose: both hay-burners and gas-burners ripped into the enemy's rear. The battle was over. Krueger...
Since 1936 talented Angela Thirkeil, who is. as stylistically languid as her Pre-Raphaelite grandfather Edward Burne-Jones and as staunchly British as her cousins Stanley Baldwin and the late Rudyard Kipling, has made hay in the fictitious fields of Barsetshire - the mythical English region created by Victorian Novel ist Anthony Trollope. In a series of novels (including the best-selling The Brandons and Northbridge Rectory}, Author Thirkell has peopled Barsetshire with 20th-Century "descendants" of Trollope's squires, rural deans, bluebloods, housemaids and self-made men - all of whom breathe an air of whimsy, nostalgia and laconic...
...tough Nancy Walker to bawl them out, they are showstoppers as well. Jerome Robbin's dances have humor and verve, and charming Sono Osato to gladden them. Best of all, On the Town has the oldtime touch it needs: under George Abbott's direction, youth has made hay without going haywire, and a lot of slightly off-Broadway talent has been given a sharp Broadway spin...