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Manchudini. In Taipei, Formosa, when police came to investigate reports of the fraudulent activities of Yang Yung-wei, Yang politely asked them to be seated, and-when they were comfortably settled-stepped quickly out of the room, locking the door behind...
...witty-genteel panel on how to use the English language-and the result suggested a custard pie hitting the electric fan at the faculty club. Speaking mostly in interruptions, Groucho hilariously showed how to use the language to bully, bluster and bewilder, spewed insults, non sequiturs, puns, and-when he turned to Panelist Harriet Van Home, pretty, blonde TV critic for New York City's World-Telegram and Sun-leers. In a calm moment, he gargled a bit from lolanthe. When Moderator Bergen Evans despaired of getting either silence or a straight answer from Expert Marx, and announced...
...fancy ball in Washington. D.C. is just like a fancy ball any place else, except that it is bigger, more fully packed and-when heavily peopled with gay Louisian-ians-easy on the drawl. Last week such a ball bounced bright and noisy off the walls of the Mayflower Hotel's grand ballroom...
...with the slow drift of the days, her panic subsides, breaks out, subsides again and finally softens to surrender. Italy's Rossano Brazzi complements Kate's artistry every step of the way. As a married but amorous art dealer, he plays her lover with wit, affection and-when necessary-a matching anger: "You are like a hungry child who is given ravioli to eat," he cries. " 'No,' you say, 'I want beefsteak.' My dear girl, you are hungry . . . Eat the ravioli...
...deck officer and gravitated to staff work. When he was discharged in mid-1946, a lieutenant commander with ten Pacific battle stars and a Legion of Merit, Murphy got him a job as deputy director of OPA in Michigan. By this time Soapy was on the make for governor, and-when the OPA job expired-he gladly seized at Fred Alger's offer of the spot on the liquor commission. At the same time Soapy Williams, the boy wonder of three schools, rounded the corner and came face to face with practical politics. He aligned himself with two highly...