Word: bums
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Brooklyn Al Perrine will not make any dates when he gets back to the "Bum" town for "eleventeen hundred" ...he's going to make it one, one, zero, zero...
...Bum News...
...reference to the Mayor Hague controversy and under the heading of "Hold That Line!" (TIME, July 19), you quote me as saying: "Hague is a bum and always was a bum, and I don't think you can whitewash him just because he says he supports...
...Then the news report was bum. TIME'S apologies to Labor Leader Quill...
Joseph Mitchell is as gloomy as only a humorist can be. For years he has been studying, with the prying patience of a botanist, the queer human weeds he finds growing in the dingier interstices of Manhattan's bum-littered Bowery. But Mitchell is saddened when readers of The New Yorker, Esquire and other magazines chuckle at the results of his researches, these 20 profiles and stories, now collected for the first time in book form. For Humorist Mitchell professes to find nothing comic in his wacky human jujubes. He says he does not caricature them. Instead, he describes...