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...audience that his extra work came out of him and not out of the city. He ridiculed critics who complain of his Washington visits: "I saw the city needed this. . . . The bankers wanted to charge me 6%, but I could get the money in Washington for 3%. So, wham!" (He ducked his head, took a track runner's on-your-mark position, dashed madly across the stage, pulled up puffing but triumphant.) "So, away to Washington I go again!" The bigwigs looked pained. The crowd loved...
Chen Cheng had the good political fortune to graduate in the last class at Paoting and teach the first class at Wham...
...Susan Hayward looks, as well as plays, the part of the scheming minx who loves her in-law a little more than the legal requirements, thus producing a temporary hexagon rather than the standard eternal triangle. Without the zip of double-entendre dialogue or the oomph of a Lampy "wham" girl, the show is straight drama-a welcome relief from Hollywood's recent obsession with boudoir repartee...
...Wham, Mr. Roosevelt; pow, Sears Roebuck; awk, big dipper; bop, summer rain...
...insolvent Chicago & Eastern Illinois almost became the first Class I railroad to leave court jurisdiction under Section 77 of the Bankruptcy Act and return to private control. Security holders all agreed informally on a plan; yet the plan fell through. Last week, under a different plan, Trustee Benjamin Wham turned the title over to President Charles O'Neal, and C. & E. I. left the courts at last. Although nearly four years had elapsed, it was still the first Class I railroad...