Word: itemizes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This message was but one item in a fat file of captured German documents, the tenth volume of which was published last week simultaneously in the U.S. and Britain. Like many another message directed to the prancing paranoid who planned to rule the world from Berlin, it revealed not so much historical fact as the fantastic lengths of self-deception followed by Hitler's ever-toadying diplomats in their constant effort to tell the Führer what he wanted to hear...
...fact remains that the massive creep of inflation has responsible economists worried. Not the least of their problems is the fact that inflation is built into inflation. Item: when the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported the 0.5% cost-of-living increase last week, the wages of some 650,000 electrical, aircraft, automobile and trucking workers automatically went up under wage-price escalator contracts by 2? to 4? an hour. These high marks in turn set goals for other unions and for unorganized workers to shoot at. And the increased wage levels set the stage for rises in prices...
Paris Night Life (Columbia LP). A frantic musical tour steamy with atmosphere. It includes such international headliners as Jacqueline François and Juliette Greco, such local music-hall and cabaret favorites as Philippe Clay and Irene Lecarte. Item of three-star interest: "le rock 'n' roll" number, Alhambra Rock, bawled by Paris' chief exponent of "impétuosité frénétique," Magli Noël, in the choked wail of a wet-diapered infant...
...tall, but you should see my brother! He jumped center for Abominable State") had a deadpan quality equal to the best of Bob and Ray; he slipped a little in a talk with a sculptress, recovered nicely in a blackout skit about a maniacal phonecaller. The only item in the show that might have disturbed the most timid network vice president was a one-minute "Behind History" skit about Barbara Fritchie. "Here's the flag, Barbara, so stick that old grey head out the window." Says Barbara: "You pay me the money first, then I'll stick...
...create the wall space needed to hang some heirloom tapestries "with a lot of people in codpieces out looking for something." Tanner's spiritual home (his father was formerly a broker on the Chicago Board of Trade) is really another decade. "I'm a pre-crash item. You know, those vulgar colored cars, baroque faucets and so on. And you should see my Charleston...