Word: isn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...drunkard are indeed present in 20th Century Fox's The Outcasts of Poker Flat, it would require copious use of an opium pipe to discover any further similarities between the film and the Bret Harte story of the same moniker. This is not to say that the net result isn't mildly diverting, which it is, though the melodrama gets a little sticky around the fourth reel...
...public service, decency and generosity. As adviser, errand boy and global troubleshooter for Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, he has always been selfless, tireless-and available. When he was sworn in for his present job as director of the Mutual Security Administration, Presidential Secretary Matt Connelly quipped: "Averell, isn't this the eighth time you've been sworn in? It's about time you learned to hold...
...time-some of the leaders of A.D.A. were engaged in rather wild fancies about the presidential nomination . . . You were a young political organization and you had not studied the history of conventions. A President of the United States, when he desires and when he wants to be nominated, there isn't anybody in the world can keep him from...
...Says Lucille: "Everything is fine with him all the time. Wanta play cards? Fine. Play games? Fine. go for a swim? Great." There's only one problem: "Desi is a great thermostat sneaker-upper and I'm a thermostat sneaker-downer. Cold is the one thing that isn't great with...
...This is it," says a young man in a pink union suit, as the curtain closes on the first of three play lets. But, luckily it isn't. Following Sid Gorman's The Center, which seems an obtuse animation of an Abner Dean cartoon the poets enact two less murky and much more enjoyable play lets. The best of these and perhaps the only real theater of the evening, is Richard Eberhardt's The Visionary Farms...