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According to Leningrad's Pravda, Khapuga, acting on rumors of impending currency reform, took the rubles he had hoarded in his boots and bought everything he could find for sale. His purchases: one wolf trap; one wolfhound; two accordions; one well-preserved Egyptian mummy; one plaster bust of Julius Caesar; five tombstones; 100 quarts of bug poison. When he heard he would have to give up his remaining rubles at ten for one, he was so upset he stumbled over his wolf trap, upsetting a tombstone which broke a bottle of bug poison, the fumes of which drove...
...were a member of the printers' union," said Executive Editor Basil ("Stuffy") Walters of the Daily News, "I'd feel a bit scared. We're not trying to bust the union; nobody's mad at anybody except that maybe we're a bit mad at the union leadership." The union leadership was mad too. It extended its strike to the Hammond, Ind. Times, which also switched to typing. And the I.T.U. served strike notices on Chicago trade papers and the Detroit Times and Free Press...
...Helen Keller was portrayed with her thinking hands upraised. Charlie Chaplin's vain, subtle face bowed in a corner. Einstein's uncombed locks stood forever snarled in bronze. John D. Rockefeller Sr. pursed withered lips. Ernie Pyle grinned shyly from a pedestal. And there was also a bust of an emaciated, fanatically intense young artist in a floppy tie, who, on close inspection, turned out to be Frank Sinatra...
...perspective into the hurly-burly of politics; but long before the end, the author drops his classic approach and blunts his touch on the smooth sides of several dozen random cliches. Like the mantelpiece sculpture of Socrates that turns up in the second act, the result is a hollow bust...
...into a provocative speculation on the shortcomings of UN, the idea falls prey to the same double-breasted double talk that plagues the Secretes business. Ideas give way to fists as the actors apparently fire of aiming empty words at empty seas and resort to more satisfying exertions. The bust of Socrates gets knocked over, but the audience is barely shaken...