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...work. When you sit down in the President's chair, he works all the time. No idleness ... He has to work nearly 18 hours a day, and then he can't get all the work done ... I had a very good time being President of the Yew-nited States, and I guess I worked as hard as anybody ever did at any job.¶"The original flag of the President, made for President Wilson in 1916, had four stars on it. When I went to Potsdam, I found a general* with 28 stars on, and I came back...
Singapore: In London's Colonial Office, experts last week dickered with 42-year-old Chief Minister Lim Yew Hok, a Malayan-born Chinese they once mistrusted, now respect. Main sticking point in drawing up a constitution for a new state of Singapore: whether Britain should keep police powers in the Red-infested Southeast Asian metropolis (pop. 1,200,000). Probable outcome: a compromise which will give Singapore full self-government but allow British intervention if troublemakers get out of hand...
Little Difference? But on opening night, the Irving Berlin tunes came across clear and forceful, and the lyrics produced their laughs on cue. (Some of the dialogue, considered too risque, was altered: e.g., Annie's line, "If you hadna' done it, I'd a shot yew right in the belly button," became "I would have shot over my shoulder and knocked the button off your vest.") Viennese brought up on the beefy Volksoper chorus were especially delighted by Prawy's slimmed-down chorus line. At the end, the audience cheered...
...swing, where the camera closes in on her face while his hands are plainly busy elsewhere ("Oooo," she gasps, "Ah feel so weak"), pushes her toward the brink by the pigpen, and apparently ends up with her in the crib after she coyly suggests that he take a nap ("Yew c'd curl up and let the slats daown"). Later, when the heroine murmurs "I feel cool and rested, rested and cool for the first time in my life," it may strike some moviegoers that the language of Tennessee Williams, no less than his subject matter, often seems...
...Yew trees pray for those who offend...