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...sport columnist for the New York Post, sad-eyed Jimmy Cannon has also come closer than any other sportswriter to taking Runyon's place. His favorite columnar character is Two Head Charlie, a thoughtful horse player, who talks like this: "You take a real ugly bum . . . with a face a monkey would be ashamed of. Let him get a shave and a haircut and meet a broad. What's the first thing the broad says to him, she says you look cute tonight . . . I admit I look like a kangaroo . . . But every broad I take out tells...
More successful than the rather floridly filmed drama and melodrama of these three is the comedy of two other episodes. The Cop and the Anthem wisely casts Charles Laughton as a dapper old bum who unsuccessfully tries to get himself locked up in a warm jail for the winter. A burlesqued version of The Ransom of Red Chief presents Fred Allen and Oscar Levant as dour confidence men who, after making the mistake of kidnaping a little monster of a hillbilly boy, finally pay his parents a reward for taking him off their hands. Sample dialogue (strictly not O. Henry...
...only other candidate with any considerable following was Lee Bum Suk, who had served Rhee ruthlessly well as Home Minister, and who was running for Vice President on Rhee's ticket. Surprisingly enough, he lost...
...automatic in hand. U.S. Lieut. Colonel Herbert Harmon stuck out his foot, tripping the assassin. As the Korean went down, Colonel Harmon clouted him in the neck, and another American officer disarmed the man. The silent scuffle escaped the crowd's notice, but Rhee's crony, Lee Bum Suk, the ambitious Home Minister, saw it all and interrupted his boss to tell the breathless crowd of the President's narrow escape. Twenty-eight minutes later, pro-Rhee newspapers were on the streets with extras-something of a record, and lending point to those who thought the murder...
Tearful Assemblymen. The next day, 600 of Rhee's supporters besieged the Assembly, caught 80 anti-Rhee members inside and demanded that they resign or else. For five hours and 15 minutes, the legislators huddled in fear, while Rhee's police stood by. Finally Lee Bum Suk showed up, and ordered his men to shove back the demonstrators and let the legislators leave. Completely intimidated, some walked out with tears in their eyes...