Word: cracksman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diffident Bob Benchley got a diffident start with the Curtis Publishing Co. ("They stayed in Philadelphia in their small way, and I went to Boston"). He managing-edited Conde Nast's brilliant Vanity Fair, wrote drama criticism for the old Life and the New Yorker. Though no mean cracksman ("I've got to get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini"), he shunned the out-&-out gag, preferred to get his laughs while puttering among the minor catastrophes and major banalities of everyday life...
...current crack about Mr. Attlee by a master cracksman, see PEOPLE...
Wunderkind. In San Diego, a cracksman who had twirled the knob of a market safe at midnight, had opened it, and made off with four rolls of pennies, admitted his age to police...
Raffles (United Artists). Ernest William Hornung did not know, when he wrote The Amateur Cracksman in 1899, that his story would become a perennial movie renamed for its hero. The current Raffles is a fourth remake of the original nickelodeon thriller. It is also Producer Sam Goldwyn's second remake of the same film and his last picture for United Artists. He is now looking for a new distributor...