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...doors an hour before the 7:30 p.m. scheduled performance. An elderly lady who barely missed getting in sidled up to the policeman and remarked, "Now this just goes to show how popular Joe is, and how right about everything he is, too." "Yeh," replied the uniform, "they shoulda hired out the Garden, look at the mob." The crowd of a thousand strung all the way to the Bay Street Beef Co. sign down the street. To satisfy the overflow a sound truck lumbered into position with the tinkling of the piano music inside drifting from its microphones...
...been excellent. Also nice blow for the misused word "discrimination." It used to be a handy one. And may Sugar Ray Robinson's "Daddy-O, ungather my dry goods, or I'll have to let you have it," be remembered favorably with Joe Jacobs' candid "I shoulda stood...
...telephone booth in the lobby of Los Angeles' post office building, a thin, bright-eyed 17-year-old talked excitedly into the phone: "Gee, Mom, you shoulda seen it. Gangsters and crooks everywhere. They were telling Mr. Kefauver about murders and losing millions of dollars gambling. It was just like the movies . . . Just listen, Mom, the Senator's coming past right...
...bewildered officer of the deck. "You go aft and sit down till I find out." A few minutes later the second marine-recruit reported aboard and was also sent aft. From the lofty eminence of his seniority, the first man scornfully contemplated the newcomer and snarled: "Listen, boy, you shoulda been in the old Corps...
Displayed next was a Dall motif (later corrected by Mr. Dame as a Degas motif) with a fascinating apple-green bodice-bow, which kept perfect time to the background music. "I don't like her; her arms are funny," said Vaughn, adding, "They shoulda put price tags on them...