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Daydream à Deux. Box F-1794 turned out to be the Sketch, which promptly cooked up the Win-A-Man stunt, put Powell on the payroll as its "Bowler-Hat Superman." Thousands of letters poured in to the paper, from spinsters, jokers (one chap needed a chap to trim his corns), enlisted men who wanted an officer to serve them breakfast...
...dizzy. What little serious drinking took place was done by dour Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko, who hopped about clinking glasses in an unpracticed attempt to work up a bit of gaiety. Perhaps he was still smarting under Bulganin's description of him to the Finns: "Quite a nice chap, but one of those fellows who will sit around all evening at a party saying only two words and next day will say 'What a wonderful time we all had last night...
Bite the Dusk. Daniel Laverock is a stout-bodied chap in his 20s, of good family and a surpassing ugliness. When he finds himself jobless in the Depression '30s, he gets a job as manager of the Pantheon, a wretched Fowlers End movie-vaudeville house owned by Sam Yudenow. It is Sam who dominates the book, a grasping, greedy, devious monster whose hilariously disarranged speech makes the best lines attributed to Sam Goldwyn read like decorous bits from Fowler's Modern English Usage. He is a devoted movie fan, particularly of westerns: "Bing, bash, bosh-another foreskin bites...
After Frates, the Dartmouth lineup is: Captain Bruce MacDonald, Harvey Bloom, Hank Milton, Buck Latimore, Steve Jonas, and Chap Jacobus...
...Socialist hootenanny in the St. Pan-eras town hall, Statesman Gaitskell cavorted like a regular chap, hurled himself with abandon into a rock 'n' roll session...