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That is about the only stage talent Danny does not possess. Even his first performance, as a watermelon seed in a play at Brooklyn's P.S. 149, showed he had a clown's heart. He was 5½ years...
...towns that bear Abe Lincoln's name, the one in Illinois (pop. 12,750) got there first. Townsfolk proudly hark back to a homely ceremony in 1853 when Abe Lincoln, a local attorney, broke open a peddler's watermelon, scattered the seeds along the Chicago & Mississippi tracks. "Now," said Abe, "this town is duly christened...
...Atlanta cafeteria, where customers and the press watched him eat seven orders of fried chicken, ten orders of French fries, nine glasses of orange juice, two quarts of milk, ten combination salads, five egg salads, two orders of olives, two glasses of iced coffee, two slices of watermelon, five orders of rolls and five slices of apple pie a la mode. Cost: $9.95. He was eating light, he said, because he had already had six candy bars and a quart of ice cream...
...Mexican for zoot-suiter. † Watermelon, doughnuts, shampoo (in Spanish, sandla, rosquitas, lavar la cabeza) become guaramelon, donas, champu, in pocho. Outside the Folies Bergbre hawkers sell a pocho glossary...
...Negro church with the sermon of a Negro preacher (Carlton Moss). From its first moment, it is arresting. For the preacher is no Uncle Tom. He does not talk minstrel-show dialect or advise his flock that, for those who bear their afflictions meekly, there will be watermelon by & by, or the Hall Johnson Choir in the sky. He talks sober, unrhetorical English, and before long he is reading aloud (from Mein Kampf) some of Hitler's opinions about those "born half-apes." While he reads, the camera moves among his listeners, quietly contradicting Hitler by the most powerful...