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[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 8:38 AM, Jonathan Lighter
<wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> _Never So Few_ (1959)

I saw that movie at a post theater at Fort Leonard Wood,MO, back in
'59. Quelle coincidence! The "flick" (according to Mario Pei, a
borrowing from Britspeak) was laughed at, since we knew that Sinatra
hadn't served a day in The War, 4-F because of a burst eardrum. Even
During The War, Sinatra concerts caused riots in NYC, if the fleet was
in port.

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-Wilson
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All say, "How hard it is that we have to die!"––a strange complaint to
come from the mouths of people who have had to live.
–Mark Twain

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