Word: rains
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine's other editor, Angus S. Fletcher 3G, added, "It is absurd to complain about something like this. We intend to remove our posters in a week or so when people are tired of them; they are even fastened by a special paste which dissolves in the rain...
Died. Tom Howard. 69, veteran vaudeville and stage comedian (The Gang's All Here, Rain or Shine), most recently the writer and thick-witted quizmaster of radio's It Pays to Be Ignorant; of a heart ailment; in Long Branch...
...MOMENT BEFORE THE RAIN, by Elizabeth Enright (253 pp.; Harcourt, Brace; $3.50), is a collection of 18 short stories with a sharply etched image on nearly every page. A woman emerges from childbirth feeling "like a huge sea shell washed up by the highest wave, empty but still ringing from the tides." There are trees hung with grey moss "like . . . the wigs of old witches" and an old-fashioned store that is full of "ribbon, cloth and clean middle-aged ladies: dry goods, indeed." The shining words of this gifted writer often appear on obvious and outsized mountings. The last...
...cruel chopper and rain theories are other possibilities. The former blames tree "trimmings" for leaving the squirrel without home and food caches. Possibly number four had to climb to such heights before reaching a branch that he died of over-exertion. Equally fatal is the rain theory, which visualizes the creature scampering innocently across the Yard, then sinking into the mud with only a brown bubble for a headstone...
...talk about foreign trade. Let me remind you, gentlemen, let me remind you of our trade with Italy back in the '30s. I can still remember how Mussolini's son bragged-bragged, mind you-about trade with us, and where did it go? To make bombs to rain down on poor innocent women and children." Down went Reed's fist, papers and pencils flew helter-skelter, and Noah Mason chortled. Mississippi's Colmer, in an artistic piece of understatement, remarked to Reed: "Well, I take it you're opposed to the bill?" Reed replied...