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Employers are under no obligation to feed their couple-sitters. The only requirement is that there be enough light for the chaperone to do her homework...
...President, said his physician, needed a change, anyway. His day was long (5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m.), and though it was broken up by a nap after lunch, as often as not there was a briefcase full of evening homework. Harry Truman, said his doctor, was down to 173 Ibs.-about right-but he was "under a terrible strain. Ordinarily, he can pass things off, political battles and things of that kind. But this [Korea] is different...
...need for 40 days & nights of rain-and a token cloudburst follows. It chides unbelievers and laggards: "Create for yourselves the miracles of kindness and goodness and peace. You are like children going to school. You have forgotten some of your lessons. I ask you to do your homework for tomorrow...
...highlight of the season. Their collaboration on "Miss Liberty," however, has produced only a better-than-average shown and thus is disappointing. None of Irving Berlin's tunes have the "whistle-appeal" that characterized the music from most of his earlier efforts. The show's lone sentimental number, "Homework," seems like a rehash of any of the drowsky tunes from the Thirties; its lyrics center around a strained similarity between the words "housework" and "homework." "Let's Take an Old Fashioned Walk" is closer to Berlin standards but even it would be three deep on the hit list from...
...Dell, a lady-reporter from the Police Gazette, and Miss Liberty herself. By all the traditions of American musical drama, Maisie should be the winner. She waits faithfully in New York while Horace tracks Miss Liberty down in Paris, she talks Bennett into sending money to Horace, she sings "Homework" with tears in her eyes. But somehow the show's namesake wins out and Maisie is left to croon an unconvincing rationalization, "Falling Out of Love Can Be Fun." The Heart of the audience is with both Maisie and Miss Liberty; it is an unsatisfying plot that leaves...