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...Think you can lick it? Get to the wicket, buy you a ticket, Go. N.Y., N.Y. What they call a Somethin' Else town. A city so nice they had to name it twice ..." Jon Hendricks wrote. Millions have come to New York thinking they can lick it. Some achieve stardom, others amass fabulous wealth. But almighty few leave with the feeling they've licked...
Over another sticky wicket, the question of Red China's admission to the United Nations, the U.S. Administration found little cause for comfort. Like the Tories, the Labor government advocates seating the Communist Chinese-but the Laborites are almost certain to be more activist in achieving their aim. The British are also eager to bring Red China into disarmament discussions. Britain, said Gordon Walker, will "consider very favorably" the suggestion by U.N. Secretary General U Thant that the nuclear powers get together with the Chinese Communists for talks on the matter-this despite a U.S. rejection of the idea...
...been estimated at more than $10 million. Among major icemen, box office employees have always had the longest tongs, which goes a long way toward explaining why they have always behaved with such freezing contempt toward the wretched public that lines up to buy ice-free tickets at the wicket. Brokers testified that they regularly delivered envelopes to box offices containing checks covering the list price of tickets plus agreed amounts of extra cash, usually about $5 to $7 for an orchestra seat...
Dream of Bagatelle. The World Wide Wicket Company has become the Tourniquet Transcontinental Trusting Company, in order to avoid a shabby French tendency to say Vorld Vide Vicket Company. When its president, J. B. Biggley, tells his florid mistress that few people know it but he is an extremely emotional man, she says (in the American version): "God damn...
...thirds of the movie one follows Billy's elaborate imbroglios and fanciful disentanglements in a spirit of high hilarity. (Whenever he finds himself pinched in a particularly sticky wicket he sees himself suddenly in a trooper's uniform, spattering his tormentors with submachine-gun bullets.) But finally, after his pipedream of a big-city job collapses, after the boss catches him embezzling, when Liz leaves for London without him and he faces the death of his grandmother and fury of his father we realize that the pathetic little mirage of Ambrosia is Billy's permanent residence...