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Price lives with his wife, three sons and a notable collection of personally refinished antiques, in an old Dutch house in Tenafly, NJ. The improbable pieces of furniture which clutter up some of his cartoons are often clearly visible in the neighborhood of Tenafly. Price thinks that Who's In Charge Here may not be as strong a book as his first and favorite, Good Humor Man. But, on the basis of the evidence, few of Price's admirers will be disappointed...
...possible postwar recrudescence of German might - these are merely a few of the fears that provoke Europeans to yeasty thinking. But the basic European quarrel is between those who look to the Atlantic Ocean for their freedom and those who regard every one of the 31 States that clutter up Europe from the Bay of Biscay to the Pripet Marshes as being an integral part of a cultural and spiritual entity. Underneath every other battle for the soul of Europe, the fight between the seaward-looking peoples and the continental landmass peoples rages unchecked...
...Hardest hit are the railroad and dock areas. In the harbor a sunken liner's funnels still stick out of the water. The remains of one or two ferries clutter the slipways. Concrete piers have been cut in two. Railway cars are smashed. The scene recalls the earthquake of 1908, when 91% of Messina's buildings were destroyed and 78,000 of its residents perished...
This pig-faced idol of 30,000 trusting Alaouites is sated with life's delights. Huge rolls of fat clutter his chin, hump his neck, swirl around his middle. He has beady, sweaty brown eyes, but, by a quirk of nature, they are spaced nicely apart, giving him an off-center approach to humanness. He lacks all the usual Arab graces, makes up for them in a futile, ostentatious show of wealth. He no longer wears the peasant costume he used when playing the role of latter-day god, appears instead in a dirty white silk suit, two-toned...
...advice and suggestions, publishers pay him $100 a day, more or less, plus expenses. A job on a metropolitan paper takes three or four weeks. He works usually in his shirt sleeves, usually on his hands & knees on the floor, in a clutter of newspapers, clippings, glue, shears, pencils. When Farrar gets paste on his hands, which is often, he wipes it on his shirt. ("My wife," says he, "gives me hell...