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...Crockett Johnson abandoned Barnaby last year, and Roy Crane gave up Wash Tubbs. Major Hoople, star boarder of Our Boarding House, did better after his creator Gene Ahern was replaced by a group of N.E.A. artists and writers...
...search narrowed down to a member of the Ladies' Aid Society who had served food at the reception. Barone found that a year before she had also served at a church supper where three people had contracted typhoid. Her granddaughter had the disease after visiting her. A boarder came down with it in 1936. She was then suspected, but no infection could be found. This time tests were positive...
...proletariat. The bourgeois wife, Imogen, is a convincing redigestion, in contemporary terms, of the kind of paralytic romanticism which Flaubert raged at (and suffered from). The proletarian taxi-dancer, Anna, is more vivid and engaging, and the glimpses into her world-a world of incidents like the Polish boarder's "doing his business and wrapping it up in paper" for Anna to pick up-are the most detached that any writer, left or right, has yet furnished on behalf of the U.S. working class and of its well-wishers. Psychologically, the story is weak in its failure to convince...
That was enough for the posse. Despite a boarder's insistence that he and his wife had slept in the loft for weeks, Mary Squires, Mother Wells and all the household were carted off to jail. "The Bawd of Enfield" was branded on the thumb and let go, but Mary Squires was tried for her ten-shilling theft (of the stays) at the Old Bailey before Sir Crisp Gascoyne, Lord Mayor of London...
Lazily rocking on his back porch Saturday noon, the star boarder of the Poon thought he smelt a seersucker burning. After a quick huddle and a fruitless search for their insurance policy, the amateur fire-sniffers voted 23 to 2 to let the place burn down. Someone, however, had already asked the local hose-and-axemen to "send a man over." He came, but he brought his friends: three engine companies, two hook-and-ladder trucks and one rescue squad. No smoke, no fire, obviously a false alarm. Whether or not the whole thing was a stunt to increase sales...