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...read and enjoyed one or all of "Barefoot Boy with Cheek," "The Feather Merchants," and "The Zebra Derby," reread one or all of them. If you haven't read any of them, read one. If you have met Shulman and not been convulsed, forget the whole thing...
...Barefoot Boy with Cheek was a remarkably sustained example of the kind of homely slapstick that gets a big laugh in the freshman dormitories. It sold 33.000 copies (and 220,000 reprints), and made Max, at 24, a very big yuk in the laugh trade. The Feather Merchants (1944) and The Zebra Derby (1946) did even better. On the dust jacket of Max's fourth book, Sleep Till Noon, no less an authority than Playwright George Abbott has no hesitation about calling Max a humorist "who seems distantly related to Dean Swift and Rabelais...
...much pity is to be taken of a woman weeping, as of a goose going barefoot...
Charmingly Churlish. At 32, Colorado-born Harold Ross was an ex-itinerant newspaperman and ex-editor of the A.E.F.'s Stars and Stripes, a rumpled, rawboned man with electric hair. (Dorothy Parker cracked that her life ambition was to walk barefoot through it.) At 57, Ross can afford a good tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described...
...Some students of what the public likes profess to see the answer in the "shine of naturalness" reflected by his use of such words as "doggone," "ain't" and "gotta" -the sort of determinedly rustic phrasing which led Fred Allen to call Godfrey "the man with the barefoot voice." His drawling, "God-gifted" voice has been variously described as "warty," "briery," "wood-raspy," and even "like a shoebox full of bullfrogs...