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Such airy servings, neatly calculated to confirm preconceived British notions, have won Iddon the Fleet Street title of "Britain's Walter Winchell." Since 1943, bumptious Reporter Iddon ("let's face it, I'm a terrific egotist") has been doing his diary the way his bosses and readers seem to like it-by skimming the foam from the U.S. scene...
...English," he once wrote, "instinctively admire any man who has no talent and is modest about it." Sure of his own talent, James Evershed Agate (rhymes with plague it) saw no reason to be shy about it; the English took him on his own bumptious terms. Though no Pepys, he was as much a national institution as the Archbishop of Canterbury's gaiters...
Mildred, who, even as a tubercular, was played with bumptious enthusiasm by Cloris Leachman. As the clubfooted Philip, Tom Helmore seemed wooden-faced and without passion. Nearly as much drama was packed into the commercials (Tintair), which starred June Havoc, Joyce Mathews and a model who triumphantly completed dyeing her mouse-blonde hair to brunette while Maugham's characters were struggling to their happy ending...
...country's gagwriters, but a serious vote for the "ten top laugh provokers of the year." Among the winners: Vice President Alben W. Berkley (public life); Jimmy Durante (TV); Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman (stage); S. J. (Swiss Family Perelman) Perelman (literature); and, in the field of business, bumptious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor...
What the Post was referring to was the persistent habit of MacArthur's communique writers in jazzing up their bulletins with bumptious prose. Some sampie phrases from last week's communiques: carrier-based planes made attacks that were "slashing" and "in close support of embattled ground troops"; they "swarmed over the entire breadth of Korea." The Navy's shelling was "pinpoint bombardment...