Word: lovelies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...says Frank, "everything's made for love." So why not toss a testimonial dinner for Sam, just to show how everybody loves him? Frank 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...
...members of the Cabinet except Secretary of State Dean Acheson, a large segment of the Congress, almost all of the foreign ambassadors and three or four generals and admirals. Frank was at the barroom door to greet them. "Hello, partner," bellowed Boykin. "Everything's made for love." The guests dug in. First there was a little buffet Frank had scraped together from his 100,000-acre hunting preserve in Choctaw County, Ala. and Deep Freeze lockers down home in Mobile -salmon from Quebec, venison from Alabama, elk from Montana, bear meat from the Okefenokee Swamp, turkey from Georgia, antelope...
...regularly turning in men whom he called Communists; their womenfolk usually became his mistresses. They had little choice, for Dimitrios had power enough, if they resisted, to bring harm to their hornes, their children or their cornfields. Recently, the situation was complicated by the fact that Dimitrios fell in love with his son's girl. He solved that problem, as the court-martial investigation showed, by denouncing his wife and son to the Communist guerrillas as "fascists." The guerrillas killed both. Dimitrios married the girl and, as a good patriot, renamed her Frederika, after Greece's Queen...
Died. Humphrey Verdon Roe, 71, pioneer British aviator and co-founder of A. V. Roe & Co., Ltd. (manufacturers of Britain's World War II Lancaster bomber), husband of popular sexologist Dr. Marie Carmichael (Married Love) Stopes; after long illness; in London...
...seduction of Bobby-Soxer Sally Kelton (Sally Forrest) is neither brutal nor particularly sordid. It is simply commonplace. By the time Sally knows that she is pregnant, her seducer has disappeared and she is already half in love with an upstanding young gas-station manager (Keefe Brasselle). From there on the plot follows all the steps of Sally's degradation and eventual rehabilitation with a kind of remorseless documentary fervor...