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...Crony Boyles is more active. The Governor's official legal aide and unofficial Pooh-Bah, he not only dispenses legal advice, but sometimes signs State papers in the Dickinson name. Himself and Colleague Moyer he modestly characterizes as "just a couple of fellows hanging on to the public tit." Other Dickinson indispensables include: smooth, young Secretary Leslie Butler-who siphons callers so carefully into his master's office that the Detroit Citizens' League once complained: "Honest citizens can't get in" -and Personal Secretary Margaret Shaw, whom, the Governor says, God sent him. ("I know there...
...time Behrman handles it with adroitness and wit. The trouble is that Behrman, a Frederick Lonsdale who reads The New Republic, too often makes sex a mere come-on for ideas, none of which he accepts. He is a kind of ideological window-shopper; or, like Pooh-Bah, a Leader of the Opposition, he feels he must resist what he approves of as First Lord of the Treasury...
They're INTERJECTIONS: Ah! Bah...
...exhibition Saturday, which, if it had only been properly advertised, would unquestionably have outdrawn all previous exhibitions in the Library's history. For, although this collection consisted only of one major item and several lesser objects, that one major item was the Princess Babs. (pronounced Bah-Bah) of Sarawak, daughter of the only white Maharaja in British Borneo...
...Italians suffered so many defeats? And you believe that the Italians, after took Bermeo from the armed force of the Reds, were attacked by a handful of fishermen and their wives and threw out of the windows and forced them to jump into the sea [TIME, May 10]? Bah, be more serious and refrain of publish such asinine lies...