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...Bannion (Lloyd Bridges) and his radio-executive wife Kate (Kay Stewart) spent the better part of three acts belaboring each other for deciding not to have a baby; they settled their aimless and inexplicable quarrels by leaving their high-playing jobs to settle in Rochester where Joe could toy with chemicals and tuberculosis at the Mayo Clinic for $1800 a year...
From the Hammond brain came oddments, too: a cigaret case and lighter, toy locomotives, a naval war game. Also a hair restorer, inspired by his own bald spot...
This week U.S. children had toys, candy and all the trimmings that traditionally go with Christmas. But it was a safe bet that no toy on Christmas Day aroused more ecstasy than a pair of new shoes given to a little boy in the U.S. zone of far-off Vienna. The little boy was an orphan. Like most of the children he knew, he had cause to realize that mere warmth, mere survival, are incomparably precious...
Christmas trees were sparse in London (those with a diameter of more than 2¼ inches rated as timber and required a special license from the timber control authorities), and it took considerable conniving to lure a plum pudding out of the grocer, but the children's toy supply had improved. For English members of the bureau like June Rose, the season offered an additional prospect: "The whole family is finally demobilized, and we'll sit around the fire together in civilian clothes for the first time since...
...masked men, in white gloves and spats, gestured grotesquely around a green baize table. To the impious tango rhythms of two pianos in the pit, the diplomats on stage wrangled and jumped on the table, their arguments increasing in fury until one of the peacemakers fired a toy pistol. That brought war-in which death was represented by a goose-stepping skeleton-into the scene. When all who accompanied Death-soldiers in battle and women at home-were dead, the false-faced peacemakers gathered again at their green table and waved their arms and fought, as foolishly as before...