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Peachum cannot flee this bunch fast enough; yet, pity the smug chuckler who patronizes this family: "You New York-Dutch-descended, probably wrong-Strauss-loving officer of some music society or civic uplift group," he snaps. "I'd like a peek at some of your Rorschachs, you old sofa-crack feeler, you. Slipping a palm furtively under cushions and into crevices as you fish for coins in other people's chairs in a fashion whose psychological symbolism is all too readily apparent, you cranny rummager, you wrong-Scarlatti admirer. You secretary-treasurer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Where Love and Lechery Overlap | 7/21/1980 | See Source »

...Adler, 60, the little man (5 ft. 5 in.) who took thought and added two inches to the stature of the little man (himself included) with Adler Elevator Shoes; of coronary thrombosis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Famed for wit as well as product, Adler wrote a weekly chuckler ("Jesse Adler Looks at the News") for 106 newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1946 | 2/18/1946 | See Source »

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