Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wastebasket had been replaced by the huge glass jar from which draft numbers were drawn in 1917. Photographers' lights beat upon 8,994* blue capsules in the jar, shedding a blue radiance on the stage. Selective Service Director Clarence Addison Dykstra and Brigadier General Hershey walked in. Slowly behind them came President Roosevelt, on the arm of his secretary "Pa" Watson. The blue-suited President looked tired, grey, exhausted by his campaign. Said he to the nation (paraphrasing a favorite phrase of Wendell Willkie) and to the 17,000,000 registrants who were about to have their numbers drawn...
...Roosevelt, granting that democracy and free enterprise are inseparable, had nevertheless believed (as the London Economist said) that "it is far more important at this stage of history to prove that democracy and communal enterprise are compatible." He foresaw ahead of the U. S. a period wherein civilian needs must come second (already Defense Commissioner Knudsen had warned auto makers they might have no new machine tools in 1941); a period when labor must be mobilized, when plant capacity and raw materials must be rationed according to national needs...
Unabashed, the News got the high-ranking fraternity Chi Psi to stage a Sadie Hawkins dance, arranged to brew for the affair Dogpatch's favorite drink, Kickapoo Joy-Juice, invited Li'l Abner's Creator Al Capp to the celebration, sent application forms to women's colleges...
...years on the stage, Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...
...Italian pictures. Biggest asset of Cinemactor Lodge is his perfect mastery of these tongues. Says he: "We think it is cute here to have an accent, but not the French." Too Many Girls (RKO Radio) is Broadway Producer-Director George Abbott's faithful reconstruction of his gay stage hit of last season about football and females in a Southwestern college. With the pace of a jack rabbit it bounds from song to dance to comedy to song, offers too short glimpses of some of Hollywood's abler and less familiar talent...