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Technocrats since the campaign began, these Zanics offer their usual mad stunts. Brow-battering, car-tweaking, nose-picking Moc sings hoarse opera. And Mike, the guy with a dinosaur's build and Minnie Mouse's laryux, is anointed Bulgarian Golden Gloves Champ after a tooth and claw battle with Curley, the tapirnosed bald head. And all this goes on amidst rhumbas and tangoes by a red-hot Pan-American band! The more cultured group will be nauseated by rough and ready buffoonery which makes the Marx Brothers seem subtle by comparison. But if you like your humor simple and sincere...
Army knotted the count yesterday in the fourth period when Curley looped an easy scoring pass to Polk...
Grover Whalen wanted Curley to do an English country dance on the Magna Charta at the New York World's Fair. Lepidopterists marveled at Curley's maxillae. People began selling Curley balloons, spaghetti, dolls, toys, picture books. The D. A. R. and the American Legion sent Curley a silver-plated twig and a miniature American flag. When a cinema short on Curley was released, during a time of blizzards and rainstorms, Variety headlined: BLIZ AND DRIZ FAIL TO FIZZLE BIZ AS BUG WOWS B. 0. [box office] FROM N. Y. TO L. A. Walt Disney gave...
Listeners to CBS's Columbia Workshop program heard all this about Curley last month in a bit of fast-moving whimsey, full of good sound effects, called My Client Curley. Variety actually headlined: 'CURLEY THE CATERPILLAR' CLICKO. Norman Corwin, crack Workshop author-director, had adapted the play from a short story by a onetime CBS publicity writer, Lucille Fletcher, 28, Vassar graduate, Phi Beta Kappa and Daisy Chain girl. So pronounced was audience reaction that Curley was put on the air again last week. Cinema studios and children's book publishers are now angling for Curley...
...affair. Upon its roster, generation after generation, appear the same proud Boston names-Adams, Ames, Amory, Cabot, Gushing, etc. Some years ago three great Massachusetts surnames were combined in one Porcellian: Endicott Peabody Saltonstall. When Endicott Peabody Saltonstall was appointed district attorney of Middlesex County, Irish Politician James Michael Curley exclaimed: "Good God, all three of them...