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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...estimated as 40 to 70 ft. high) she suffered no hemorrhage. Finally, Joan's conscientious executioner complained that even in his hottest fire her entrails would not burn. Dr. Butterfield suggests that this "would not be surprising if there were many calcified lymph glands in the abdomen, the usual result of bovine tuberculosis...
...lose its haunting power; failure will bring an end to torment and a perfect peace. The barflies find, however, that to abandon the dream is to die, and that Hickey's peace is the peace of death. The only way to play the game of life is against the usual, heavy odds. Harry Hope and his friends decide that Hickey is mad, and go back to the old life of torment and bad whiskey...
...nonpolitical civil servants, Ne Win put his troops to work, shoveling garbage from Rangoon's filthy streets, cleaning the boulevards, repairing water pipes, filling in potholed roads. Old residents were amazed that suddenly the streets were no longer filled with prowling packs of wild dogs and the usual flocks of scavenger birds. To help bring down the soaring cost of living, General Ne Win ordered Burma's navy to divert its patrol boats from their coastal duties and send them out as a fishing fleet...
...price, show the customer the price stamped on the original carton as proof of a huge bargain. One lawnmower manufacturer advertised last spring in a trade publication that his power mowers, which he priced in ads at $154.95, could be sold at $74.95-and the retailer would make the usual profit. A watchmaker preticketed a lady's wristwatch at $200, a Detroit store sold the watch for $17.00. A blanket manufacturer offered retailers $24.95-list blankets that a retailer sold at $14.95; comparative shopping showed that they were not worth $10.00. One major mattress maker now gives his retailers...
Party Girl (Euterpe; MGM) is a caricature of an old-fashioned gangster picture, done in a clever but vulgar style. All the usual features are there, but all are comically exaggerated. The Little Caesar (Lee J. Cobb) is a sentimental old sweetie-pie with a heart almost as big as his sneer, who passes out diamond-crusted cigarette cases as if they were candy bars, gets a schoolboy crush on a studio still of Jean Harlow, and in fact has only one fault. He frequently rubs people the wrong way: out. The Big Mouthpiece (Robert Taylor), with his white-piped...