Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though slickly put together, The Story of Will Rogers often slacks off for lack of a dramatic story to tell. Funnyman Rogers career had no violent ups & downs. He had no enemies ("I joke about every prominent man of my time," he once said, "but I never met a man I didn't like"). And time has taken the edge off many of his most typically topical quips...
...free Finland, editorial writers may say what they like about Russia, but they carefully think before saying it. The cafe arguer may damn Stalin to his heart's content, but he makes a joke instead. Finland's President proclaims publicly in the bleak tones of a bank examiner: "Our relations with Russia are friendly." In private he says wistfully, "Finland is a Western nation." Finland refused Marshall Plan aid on the ground that that would be entering an alliance against Russia, but it accepted a U.S. loan. When a newsman remarked that this was a pretty fine distinction...
...Finnish 1,000-mark bill is engraved with a picture from mythology showing a band of naked people standing on a shore and looking wistfully out to sea. Finns today joke that the picture shows them waving to the last reparation ship. It is only a joke, however, for industrious Finland has emerged from doing the impossible, not naked and bankrupt, but riding on a wave of prosperity. Last year the sky-high prices for lumber and pulp all over the world sparked an export boom that more than doubled Finland's gold reserves and gave her a whopping...
...week, the Nationalist government could no longer rely on the discipline of its regular forces, which are the largest and most modern in Africa. South Africa's 30,000-man army, a seasoned combat force under Good Soldier Jan Smuts (whom Erasmus kicked out), has become a military joke, badly equipped and riddled with political intrigue...
...years his 35? Pocket Book on baby care has sold more than 4,000,000 copies, which puts it in a class with the dictionary and the Bible. Millions of mothers regard him as an oracle, parents turn out 5,000 strong to hear him lecture, and other pediatricians joke that their main job is to interpret him. One mother stands a little in awe of her child because he was examined by the doctor in school. "I look at Henry," she told a friend, "and I think, he has seen Dr. Spock!" If their mothers are using as well...