Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Havana travelers show little interest in the crowded and expensive Miami winter season. The Cuban season starts in the spring, hits a peak in midsummer (30,000 in June, July, August and September), ends this week. During the summer, Cubans joke that Biscayne Boulevard is merely an extension of Havana's Prado; Cuban business kept a record 225 of Miami Beach's 338 hotels open all this year...
...sidewalk cafes, in dreary queues, on street corners and stubble-strewn fields throughout the world, men paused last week (as every week) to pass a word with their fellows and lighten their burdens with a wry joke. Here 85 there, as the talk shuttled, TIME'S correspondents bent an ear to listen...
With perverse taste and awkward haste, some newspapers last week tried to write off the appalling election performance of the U.S. press as an amusing little joke. The Washington Post sent a can't-we-be-friends telegram to President Truman: YOU ARE HEREBY INVITED TO A "CROW BANQUET" TO WHICH THIS NEWSPAPER PROPOSES TO INVITE NEWSPAPER EDITORIAL WRITERS, POLITICAL REPORTERS AND EDITORS, INCLUDING OUR OWN, ALONG WITH POLLSTERS, RADIO COMMENTATORS AND COLUMNISTS . . . MAIN COURSE WILL CONSIST OF BREAST OF TOUGH OLD CROW EN GLACE. (YOU WILL EAT TURKEY.) . . . DRESS FOR GUEST OF HONOR, WHITE TIE. FOR OTHERS -SACK...
...George Gallup, Elmo Roper, Archibald Crossley and all the other pollsters who had been dead wrong on the election could not see the joke. They had reason to wonder last week whether their great fiasco would not put them, like the Digest, out of business...
...translator S. N. Behrman) now says the rest. The fact that he really has little to say and says it with too many words does not particularly matter. It is a talky play, but the talk is nimble. The story itself is simple, little more than an extended practical joke. There are no memorable lines or take-home gags; it is rather an exercise to keep afloat some pretty balloons that somehow got into the bedroom...