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...along with irascible Cigarette Magnate George Washington Hill, as a result rose to vice president. In the 1947 movie, The Hucksters, in which Sydney Greenstreet represented Hill, suave Adolphe Menjou was supposed to be Foote, bleeding ulcerwise and beaming sycophantwise as Greenstreet spat on a conference table. "I don't think I could impersonate Mr. Menjou very well, and I don't think he could impersonate me very well," laughs Foote...
...them, from the Roman Catholic Archbishop on down, now swears allegiance to the "Queen of Malta." For their part, the British have abundant fondness for the hardy, dark-skinned islanders who proved devoted allies through two world wars. Last week the friends were embroiled in an angry spat that threatens to end their long relationship...
When Peter Grimes, Benjamin Britten's dour saga of a doomed fisherman, was first produced at the Metropolitan Opera in 1948, one patron was so outraged that he spat through the box-office window. Badly sung, unimaginatively staged, poorly conducted, the opera sank with barely a ripple...
...Counting the Contractions. "This has been going on for millions and millions of years," coos Mary Martin reassuringly. Preston, looking as if he were in protracted labor pains of his own, replies ruefully: "How did the men ever live through it?" And so it goes, from The First Spat to Son's Wild Oats-something involving a bottle of bourbon. Suddenly it is time for daughter to leave the nest, and Fond Father Waxes Wroth: "My daughter is marrying an idiot." Autumn leaves begin dappling the script; Preston and Martin, grey-wigged, pat the familiar bed farewell...
...Vague Letter. That semantic spat settled, another divisive word promptly popped up to plague the G.O.P. This time it came from Reagan. Asked by a television interviewer whether the party should nominate in 1968 a man who had not backed the 1964 ticket, Reagan said: "Well, a lot of that would deal with whether the individual repented or not. I don't think that a convention would support someone who stayed aloof or who actually opposed the will of the party and then was completely unregenerate...