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...going to write a primer for my four-year-old, who writes phonetically (fonetik-ly). It's going to be called At the Barnyard and have sentences like "You should buff the rough wood on the plough now," and "After the calf laughs the fey jay neighs...
...asks politely for his violin, for example, it is tossed in a high parabola from the wings and smashes at his feet. He turns to the audience and draws every living soul to his side with the glazed-over helpless look that was once said to resemble "a calf that had just been struck between the eyes with a sledgehammer...
...calf, being 69 years old, is now a sacred cow. Jack Benny has returned to Broadway for the first time since he left Earl Carroll's Vanities in 1931 and went into radio. There he stood last week-in the redecorated, reopened, reclaimed-from-television, traditionalistic Ziegfeld Theater-telling the same jokes that he has been reworking for 30 years. Self-mitigation stories, each successive one is as fresh and original as an ocean wave; but the individual jokes are unimportant in themselves-it is their cumulative effect that has created this wonderful character that almost everyone would like...
...Tucson, Ariz.; Sir Anthony Eden, 65, former British Prime Minister, of a mild anginal attack, on Barbados; Marshall Bridges, 31, star (8-4) relief pitcher for the New York Yankees last year, laid up with a .25-cal. slug from a lady's pistol in his left calf, following a barroom wild pitch, in Fort Lauderdale...
...Even Calfs-Foot Jelly. When the patient's son-in-law, Russian-born Dr. Arieh Rapoport, came to visit her, instead of more morphine or barbiturates he prescribed thalidomide, hopeful that it might prove to be a better sedative. He had no thought that it could have any effect on the disease. "After the first pill," says Mrs. Bursi's daughter, "mother had her first good night's sleep in weeks. Next day, she talked coherently. In a month, she was able to eat by herself. Now she eats everything-even her favorite, calf's-foot...