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...year (1949), his curriculum ranged from semi-starvation to marching till his feet blistered, from writing whoppers as a "People's Correspondent" for the New China News Agency, to a minor post with the Ministry of Propaganda - while inwardly he fought to keep Mao Tse-tung and gang from using his brain as a Marxist sewage disposal dump...
...jarred the teeth of the driver (and would have thrown a less-skilled man into the ditch). It was sent splashing through a shallow tank of water. For six months the car was driven, in well-shrouded secrecy, until it had piled up more than 100,000 miles. Not till then did Studebaker Corp. engineers feel that they had worked all the bugs...
Though perhaps too well-remembered, My Sister Eileen is till a very funny play. The comic repliques of the 1940 hit dominate the new production, but Wonderful Town integrates script and melody with great success. Paced by George Abbott's direction, the show completely skirts tedium and glides from dialogue to song without quash of gears on diminished quality. The further assets of a choice east headed by Rosalind Russell and handsome settings by Raonl Pene du Bois make Wonderful Town a seek and thoroughly delight ful show...
...numerous type (and at this time of year the resorts are lousy with 'em) is the "snowbunny." This term is usually mouthed with much contempt by those who "know how." It means that the poor guy hasn't had much experience. He asks straight as far as he can till he meets another skier, or a tree, or a bump, and then he falls down. When he gets up he tries again. But he's happy. He loves the feel of the cool clear crystals in his early, the wind whipping by his watering eyes, and the relaxing ride...
Afterwards, the Fremantles settled to a quiet country life in England, and Betsy's diary became filled with the domestic trivialities of a life fully enjoyed. Betsy amassed a brood of children, worried over their manners and education, "danced 24 couples till past four o'clock in the morning," and, as a matron of 19, sniffed that "the fashion now is to be almost naked, even old women show all their necks and back." Her happiness was in her marriage: "Mr. Fremantle very loving to his wife who is uncommonly attentive...