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...heroine (Doris Day) becomes a singer in a revue, reduced to slinging for her supper in a hotel scullery. The hero (Robert Cummings) is a famous songwriter-a fiction scarcely supported by the songs attributed to him-who is staying at the hotel. Doris is soon pleasantly crooning "I'm in love" to a silver-lame willow while mechanical stars dot the screen like light bulbs shining through an I.B.M. card; and instead of a slipper, her Prince Charming offers her a Broadway part...
...between adolescence and adulthood. Many political observers now maintain that 18 rather than 21 is a more reasonable dividing point, at least as far as political participation is concerned. As publicity increases no doubt the sentimental arguments "old enough to fight, old enough to vote" will gain much popular supper. But University faculty members who have long studied various aspects of political behavior, generally offer more incisive arguments in favor of extending the suffrage...
Around the Corner. In Baltimore, seeking the Republican nomination for governor, Tim Bright defined what he meant by "100% prosperity": "Chicken legs raining around this state like a snowstorm in Chicago . . . turkey gravy dripping . . . like Niagara Falls . . . porterhouse steaks for breakfast," then sat down with his audience to a supper of frankfurters and lemonade...
Prices at most Bermuda hotels during the spring holidays average about $14 a day on a modified American plan (breakfast plus lunch or supper included in price). Plane fare to the island is about $120 round trip including tax. Steamer fare...
Cecil quickly called a public meeting in Benton City and asked for $3,500, to help the doctor pay off his debts. At the first meeting, he raised over $600. Later meetings and a benefit supper got the total up to $1,200. Meanwhile, patients began to send in their checks−so well, at first, that Dr. Chalmers was able to pay back a $400 loan the clinic guild had given...