Word: joes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...less than no sense, notably in view of the fact that it sank $2 billion into a situation it had long regarded as hopeless. From Congress, Connecticut's John Davis Lodge snapped: "Apparently the Administration would rather lose a continent than lose a little face." House Minority Leader Joe Martin called the white paper an "Oriental Munich." Senator Arthur Vandenberg, more temperate, nailed as "tragic mistakes" the State Department's "impractical insistence" on coalition with the Communists, and the Yalta agreement, negotiated, behind China's back, which opened the gates of Manchuria to Soviet armies. The Yalta...
...hired the main barroom and big banquet hall of the capital's Washington Hotel, sent out invitations to every big shot in town and a slew of industrialists, statesmen, bankers and railroad executives. (Winston Churchill cabled his regrets.) Once before, when Sam Rayburn lost the speakership to Republican Joe Martin, Boykin had wanted to do something for him, and he raised money to buy as handsome a Cadillac as the official car he had to give...
Except for his rages, Joe's most impressive feature is his unpredictable size. At one point, in a tussle with some furious lions the size of overgrown rats, Joe looks about as big as a house. Later, little bigger than a normal gorilla, he blandly climbs into a standard-size moving van. In reality, Joe is a puppet of fur-covered aluminum, probably not more than twelve to 18 inches tall. His minutest movements were photographed frame by frame, like the drawings in an animated cartoon, and synchronized with scenes with live actors...
...details of Joe's technical secrets are locked in the heads of Producer Merian C. Cooper and Director Ernest B. Schoedsack, who also created the mighty Kong. Since it cost $1,800,000 to piece the secrets together in a single film, they are likely to stay there for some time to come...
...Dangerous Age. In Flushing, N.Y., Mrs. Mary Kovacik, 70, charged in court that her husband Joe, 66, had spanked her for "running around with the boys...