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...veto message was blistering. With one eye on politics, Harry Truman singled out and named his villain of the piece: Ohio's Republican Senator Robert Alphonso Taft. It was Taft's amendment providing price increases for manufacturers based on profits in prosperous 1941 (plus subsequent costs), said the President, which would "compel thousands of needless price increases amounting to many billions of dollars." This, wrote the President, was the "mainspring" of "an impossible bill" that "provides a sure formula for inflation...
Very little film footage is wasted on what youthful horse-opera fans impatiently call "love stuff." What there is plenty of: gorgeous outdoor backgrounds of feverishly tinted canyons and corrals; convincing skullduggery by a lowdown villain (Bruce Cabot); wonderful incidental ballad singing (Blue Tail Fly and a Johnston office version of Foggy, Foggy Dew) by Burl Ives, 270-lb. troubadour making his movie debut as a guitar-thumping ranch hand...
...loving Vienna's favor, they ordered opera performances to be resumed last May. It was symbolic of Austrian-Russian relations that the Viennese claimed a singer in The Marriage of Figaro had been raped three times by Russian soldiers the day before the opening. To Vienna the chief villain is General Alexei Zheltov, Konev's second in command, who is believed by most observers to be more powerful than Konev. Zheltov is a member of the NKVD, is secretive about his past, talks suavely, narrows his eyes when he gets excited, was once a wrestler...
...right by AFN. You stated that AFN established stations in Le Havre and Paris for the entertainment of the G.I.s. This is very true, but we also had stations in Marseilles, Nice, Dijon, Nancy, Reims, Biarritz, and Munich, Berlin, Bremen, Kassel and Frankfurt in Germany. These -Svengali, the villain-hypnotist; by Trilby's author and illustrator, George Du Maurier. fixed or permanent stations were also augmented by mobile stations with the ist, 7th, gth and isth Field Armies. We would have had one with General Patton's 3rd Army had it not been for the fact that...
...Villain of the tale: Corky, a dark-visaged spirochete 1/3000th of an inch tall, with a corkscrew body, a nose like a golf tee and spindly legs somewhat less hairy than those of Popeye's Alice, the Goon. As leader of the syphilitic saboteurs, he is Mayor of Chancretown, whose civic anthem is Down by the Old Blood Stream. At the Royal Gorge Café (where the population doubles hourly), his constituents sing...