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General Washington need not have worried. The handsome pay of the Revolution was mostly on paper. (His men at Valley Forge were lucky if they had paper to wrap their feet against the cold.) Nor did soldiers in the first U. S. peacetime Army fare much better $82 a month for the ranking officer, $4 for privates in 1785. When the British returned for the War of 1812, privates' pay rose to $8 a month (plus $124 bounty for enlisting). After peace came in 1815, the U. S. treated its Army as usual, cut the privates...
...happened) of getting married under floodlights at the home plate of a Houston ball park, about his registering at three St. Louis hotels at one time so that he could flop when he liked. On sizzling hot days he would build a bonfire in front of the Cardinal dugout, wrap himself in a blanket, do an Indian war dance. One night, out of ennui in a Philadelphia hotel, he and two teammates, dressed in painters' overalls, dragged ladders and paint cans into a crowded ban quet hall, began to redecorate the walls...
...With George Murphy and Eleanor Powell (survivor of the two previous Melodies), Astaire taps his way through a half-dozen nimble numbers, including Begin the Beguine, some more recent, less inspired Cole Porter tunes. Frank Morgan chases ungrateful files de joie, who try to make off with the ermine wrap he lends them (for the evening). An uncredited comedienne (Charlotte Arren) squawks Arditi's Il Bacio as it has never been squawked before. But the best part of Broadway Melody of 1940, as of any other Astaire picture is Fred Astaire dancing as if he really enjoyed dancing...
...Declined to wrap Franklin Roosevelt and his whole New Deal in a blanket endorsement, elected the Carpenters' arch-Republican William Hutcheson first vice president...
...Simple instructions are more persuasive. When a teacher, pointing to glass toys, said "Put them away in the red box," 34 of 37 moppets did so. But when she said: "We have to be very careful of these glass animals. We wrap them up in tissue paper. We put them away in a red box. ... It would be too bad to break them. . . . You put them away," only seven children responded correctly...