Word: jokes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cairo purveyed a graceless joke: when Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Ismet Inönü met after Teheran, they dined on warmed-up Turkey. President Inönü and his agile Foreign Minister, Numan Menemencioglu, deserved a better commentary-for, to all intents, Turkey had joined the Allies. She might at any moment be faced with war, either by her own declaration or by German attack...
Young (33), wealthy (Manhattan lumber companies and marriage) and blatantly self-confident, Bill Cox had bought the Phillies after they had finished last or next to last for ten years, were all but bankrupt and the joke of the National League...
Brazilians have a joke they like to tell on their popular Dictator-President Getulio Vargas. It concerns Sao Pedro Church, still standing in the middle of Rio de Janeiro's newly constructed, three-mile Getulio Vargas Avenue...
President Vargas knows the joke and chuckles over it. Last week, on the sixth anniversary of his "New State," he chuckled again. São Pedro Church will be moved, stone by stone, to be rebuilt on a new site. President Vargas' regime is also moving-toward a postwar new deal...
...Psychiatrist Kenneth Tillotson gazed soberly at samples of Artist Alberto Varga's skimpily clad babes, then testified "as a doctor who has examined hundreds of women." Said he: Varga girls are "inspiring" and not abnormally hippy, though sometimes their feet are too big. He was shown an Esquire joke about a corporal who found two luscious blondes in his Pullman berth and said, "One of you girls will have to leave." Dr. Tillotson's reaction: "That I call funny...