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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This isn't the sort of stuff that red-blooded Americans ought to do, especially with the world in the awful fix it's in. But it sure is lucky that the younger generation hasn't figured out how to make those atom bombs, considering the way young rowdies are blowing up everything in sight. You bet your sweet life it's lucky...
...movie is released at Christmas. But Tunesmiths Evans & Livingston hope to pocket $20,000 apiece from it. They have written another tune, My Own True Love, which they expect to be a hit, too, though the public has yet to hear it. That one, say Evans & Livingston, is "a sort of present-day I Love You Truly. You know, you can sing it in church...
...that kind of game. Kirkland won, 21-12. But before the sun went down on the Charles River, seven Yale college teams had beaten Harvard teams. That night in Boston nightspots, the strains of Bulldog, Bulldog drowned out Fair Harvard, possibly because Yale men go in more for that sort of thing...
Light Up the Sky (by Moss Hart; produced by Joseph M. Hyman & Bernard Hart) is a sort of venomous paean to show business. With a veteran's often bitter knowledge, Playwright Moss Hart has chronicled the out-of-town opening of an ambitious $300,000 drama. In a hotel suite before the performance, the swishy director (Glenn Anders), the splashy producer (Sam Levene) and the gushy leading lady (Virginia Field) spray the atmosphere with love, and the idealistic young playwright with admiration. Six hours later, when the show seems to be a flop, the playwright is denounced...
...weeks ago, the seers of press and radio were dousing the American public with speculative garbage about the "Dewey cabinet." When this hypothetical group vanished on November 3, the experts shamelessly began the same sort of ponderous gossip about Truman's advisers--who was scheduled to depart, and who was sneaking up fast on the inside for such-and-such an executive position...