Word: shorted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More guests, stories of Thomas' adventures, Edwards' desperate explanations -nothing gets the show back on the rails. Enter Prosper Buranelli, Thomas' short, rotund assistant...
...bulging with black-tied men and mink-draped starlets. As for the movie, it was a blatant rehash of Grand Hotel (1932). It was, sneered the Süddeutsche Zeitung, "pretentious kitsch [trash], a perfection of mediocrity, apotheosis of the single-entendre. Everywhere the box-office sledge hammer. In short, a German film...
...prison is tucked in a barren bend of the Mississippi, looking toward fields of Louisiana sugar cane. Inside Angola's cyclone fences are the lifers-men serving sentences for rape and murder. Periodically a short man in rumpled suit and bow tie moves into the prison toolroom, lugging a tape recorder, a six-string guitar, a twelve-string guitar and a fiddle. Around him gather the prisoners-"Guitar" Welch, "Hogman" Maxey, Robert Pete Williams-to shout out their songs...
Oscar's plugs hit the surface with short, sharp slaps. "The big ones, they get nerved up by the noise," he explained, "and maybe that's the best time-when they don't think, and want to get rid of the damned thing, and hit it. If he hits, he's a fighter. You see that pole bend down and that striper taking all your line and going out 500 ft., pulling like a bull, making circles, doubling back. Then he quiets down, and you think you've got him. You start bringing...
...heavy bidding was welcome news to the Treasury, which had been forced to do most of its borrowing in the very-short-term (less than a year) market because of Congress' stubborn refusal in the last session to remove the 4¼% ceiling on long-term (over five years) bonds. Since June, the Government has financed nearly $16 billion in the short-term market, ballooned interest rates, dried up much of the normally available money supply. The rush for the new issue proved that Treasury Secretary Robert Anderson was on the right track when he asked for removal...