Word: laugh
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemadicts get a chance to relax and laugh at the trials of an Army rookie, Private Hargrove, the boy around the corner, when they view "See Here, Private Hargrove," the latest take-off on Army life...
Along with problem dramas, A.N.T. has produced the current Broadway farce, Three's a Family and has gaily spoofed Strivers' Row, Harlem's uppity Park Avenue. Says A.N.T.: "When a race can laugh at its own foibles, it has really become civilized...
...show had its own casualties. Last December Major Robinson was killed in a plane accident while flying over the Hump. "It was bad. . . . We felt we just couldn't play-how could we be funny, and laugh, on the same field where the Major had died? . . . That was our first baptism of 'the show must go on' routine." After the death of Major Robinson, the new C.O. was Lieut. Jack Yule, a former professional actor (in Hump-Happy, he works the spotlight...
...capital featured half a million tulips. The Nazi Party stepped up weekend sports; Berliners had a choice of boating on the Wannsee, trotting races at Mariendorf, steeplechasing at Karlshorst, football, tennis and hockey matches. The radio urged: "The human body and soul need the stimulating reactions of the laughing muscles. He who cannot laugh lives in vain...
...laugh would be on Sinco, if the price of Sinclair stock should fall drastically. (Two years ago it sold for $5.) But with Sinclair Corp. booming, there seemed little chance of that. At week's end Sinclair stock was up to $13.75. Thus, in three days Harry Sinclair had made a paper profit of $75,000-taxable up to only 25% if held for six months...