Word: reunioning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From the Bottom. At any Courier-Journal family reunion, Bingham could feel at home. His father, rich Judge Robert Worth Bingham, had bought the paper in 1918-and had promptly plumped for the League of Nations, thereby losing Marse Henry as editor. The Judge wanted his son to start at the bottom, so after Harvard Barry earnestly filled a succession of jobs on both the papers and WHAS, the Binghams' radio station. In 1937 the Judge died in office as Franklin Roosevelt's Ambassador to Britain, and Barry Bingham inherited all three enterprises...
...room that held both Bevin and Molotov would never be mistaken for a college reunion. But after the table-thumping displays of bad manners at London, the air of sober, workmanlike cordiality at Moscow seemed reassuring...
...barely over, yet the British fascists were back again. A thousand of them celebrating their release from wartime internment held a "reunion dance" in London's Royal Hotel. Because the dance was "private," listening reporters were thrown out of the hall, after one was kicked and beaten...
...plot concerns a wife (Irene Manning) who, at a college reunion, meets the man (Bill Johnson) she almost eloped with ten years before. Romantically stirred by a novel he has written about her, she again agrees to elope, again doesn't quite. Unlike the usual musicomedy plot, this one is never for a moment let out of the audience's sight, is even shoved into two boring Antony Tudor ballets. Vocally it pays off with such schmalzy tunes as The Day before Spring and / Love You This Morning, a lively ditty called Where's My Wife...
Using a "Harrison University" reunion as a setting, Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loew have taken the eternal triangle, given it a new twist, added several fantasies, a hatful of songs and dances, and turned out a sparkling musical...