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...incompetent cooking, Dance Me a Song makes very thin broth. For awhile it can just manage to be termed uneven; by the end, there is no kinder word than weak. The show boasts a batch of sprightly and likable young people, including Dancer Joan McCracken. But youth at the prow can seldom prosper without ability in the engine room. The show has some pleasantly simple dance numbers, but more that are noisy and elaborate. One or two songs are nice enough to listen to, but there are none worth talking about. The sketches, always the most important part...
...Matter of Minutes. Water gushed into the forward torpedo room through the hole made by the Divina's prow. Before the lights went out Civilian Stevens had a chance to check the depth gauge: the Truculent rested on the bottom, 42 feet below the surface. "I knew then that an escape could be made," said Stevens. "All that worried me was what would happen...
Unhappy Fact. Boston's prow-chinned Archbishop Richard J. Gushing then made a pronouncement. Boston College authorities, said he, had been right in firing the teachers ("I do not see what else [they] . . . could have done"). Furthermore, the newspaper appearance of Father Feeney's name, Archbishop Gushing said, "obliges me to reveal the unhappy fact that Father Feeney has been defying the orders of his legitimate superiors for more than seven months and since Jan. 1 of this year has not possessed the faculties of this archdiocese." In plainer words, Father Feeney had been denied the right...
...first broadside of the 1948 presidential campaign. Before 1,300 cheering Ohio Republicans in Columbus, U.S. Senator Robert A. Taft† opened his "campaign last week by raking the Truman Administration from prow to poop, blasting its domestic policy and its foreign policy and praising the Republican Congress for crimping the powers of the executive. He exposed himself to the hot fire of counterattack, but that would hardly dismay Ohio's Taft...
Suddenly one of the crew shouted something to the helmsman, but his warning was drowned by the children's singing. The launch plowed into a rusty underwater steel pylon, placed there by the Germans as an anti-submarine obstacle. For a moment the launch's prow hung in the air, then the stern slid swiftly under water. Without a punctuating pause, the children's songs became screams...