Word: showings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harry Truman laughed again. That's not hard to do, he said, because when he was about 16 or 20 years old, he used to go to every vaudeville show that ever came to Kansas City. He had seen the Four Cohans and Eva Tanguay, he remembered. And he used to be an usher every Saturday afternoon at the Grand and see the shows free. "Where was the Grand?" a Kansas City Star reporter asked. Down at Seventh and Walnut, said Truman. "Gosh," said the reporter, "we'll have to put up a plaque there tomorrow...
...Communist fatherland, Bolshevik bosses were also having trouble with men who coddled the worker. "Some managers," Moscow's Pravda whined, "are prone to show off their lavishness and kindness at the expense of the state, under the guise of awards and presents. They encourage all kinds of . . . soirées and banquets on any and every occasion-or even without any reason whatsoever...
...split between workers as party members and workers as union members was not allowed to break up the Bridlington show; conflicts were carefully covered up in compromise resolutions. Explained one delegate: "Barkis isn't always willing, but he usually has to say he is." So, with their eyes on the approaching general elections, the delegates grudgingly gave the government its way on every important question...
...show what he meant, Doyle pointed to a glaring example of life-adjustment claims in a recent article in This Week magazine. The article was "full of the usual cliches such as 'learning as much about children as Chaucer' . . . and suspicious statistics." A "family-living" course in a Michigan high school, for instance, was credited with having cut the divorce rate among graduates, yet the life-adjustment "revolution" was only four years old. "How early do [they] marry?" Doyle wanted to know...
...dusted off his first three Forest Hills opponents last week. He was clearly pleased at being seeded No. 1 in the tournament, over young (21) up & coming Richard ("Pancho") Gonzales, the defending champion; there were moments when it seemed that Schroeder's big reason for entering the big show was to prove to several old adversaries (including Billy Talbert, Frank Parker and Pancho) that he was still boss...