Word: spoonfuls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Silver Spoon...
Each class gives a set of Radcliffe china to its first member to be married following graduation, and the first girl born to a member of each class gets a silver spoon and becomes the class mascot. Increasingly in recent months, the girls are marrying before they graduate, probably because of the threat of war. Usually they marry during the Christmas holidays and return to college. After graduation, about 40 per cent get jobs, 29 per cent do graduate work...
...subs. Battle Submerged and Sink 'Em All are crammed with more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism plagued U.S. subs for two years); of how the Gato fetched up with...
...thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied, the boy and his friends would repair to basements or bedrooms, furtively dissolve the powder with water in a spoon and give each other shots...
...Born Yesterday" has been born in celluloid, with a silver spoon in its mouth. First of all, it's a faithful version of Garson Kanin's play, almost line for line. It has an excellent cast, one which for a change, seems to understand words. And it has Judy Holiday, who played Billie Dawn for years on Broadway. Miss Holliday alone would be enough...