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...preventative-unlike a vaccine which may be effective for years. Said Dr. Harry M. Weaver, research director of the foundation: "The final goal has not yet been reached. Large-scale tests on many children still must be undertaken before we can hope for victory. It would be a cruel jest if people were led to believe that there existed a proven preventive for actual use this summer...
...Whom jest had joined together, peevishness took 25 years to put asunder. In those 25 years, Gilbert & Sullivan filled the English theater with such rollick as it had scarcely known before. Pinafore, Patience, The Mikado, The Gondoliers and the rest were something new under the limelight: real comedy operas whose music, in its own fribble fashion, was better written than most of the "serious" stuff of its time, and whose plots and lines were among the cleverest on the contemporary stage. These were smash hits, and today, after more than half a century, they are fresh hits every time...
...Seen any saints lately?" asked the machine--attempting, it seemed, to jest. "They're pretty thin, aren't they?" There were no smiles...
...Tall Men (Columbia), a tall adventure tale of the French Foreign Legion, treats its old formula so lightheartedly that it becomes the beau jest of the genre. Burt Lancaster, the devil-may-care sergeant, recruits nine rough, tough men from the Legion's brig (Gilbert Roland, Kieron Moore, George Tobias et al.) for a dangerous mission. The regiment is away from the fort; Riff tribes are uniting to attack. Lancaster's outnumbered riffraff must hold off the Riffs until reinforcements arrive...
Waal sir, an reckin that in yore part of the country, ef'n ya hain't got the gumption to check on whuther a story is true or not, ya jest run an eddytorial saying ya don't believe it. Ah don't know how yer moonshine indestry compares with ourn up here, but ah'd bet we'uns could teach ya a thing or two about jurnyalism-Eddy...