Word: damns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Cartoonist Robert Osborn left the Navy in 1946, he paid his respects to the military with a small book of cartoons entitled War Is No Damn Good! Across its pages strutted a wonderful, viciously funny parade of balloon-shaped generals and admirals, gorilla-faced noncoms and forlorn, tortured G.I.s. Last week Osborn finally paid his respects to civilian life with a book called Low & Inside (Farrar, Straus & Young; $3.75). If anything, the sequel is even deadlier and more acidly humorous than the original...
...only fitting that MGM's Roman-made picture should play in Rome at advanced prices, for all the city to see and admire. After the pressagents took over, there were a few false starts. The Colosseum was to be used for the premiere, but: "It's too damn cold now to get them sitting out there at night." Also abandoned was a scheme to stage a chariot race along five roads converging on Rome. There were plenty of advertising tie-ins, however. Quo Vadis was linked with shirts, perfume, razor blades, and a contest among 400 hairdressers...
...businessmen constantly applaud competition and private enterprise, and damn socialism and planned economies. We accuse our foreign neighbors of lacking the kind of spirit which has made American industry great. We implore them to follow our example and get off our backs. So I just say, let's practice what we preach, where it will do us and our allies some real good. Let's give our friends a fair crack at the American market . . . I believe we ought to get rid of the 10% tariff on automobiles* at once...
...voice of Fitzgerald's careless young people who "smashed things and creatures and then retreated back into their money" echo through the book. "I wonder if we were ever as funny as we thought," one of Phillip's more stable characters wonders. "We always thought we were so damn smart...
...present with his happier past and the promise of a hopeful future. Among the people brought before the mike were the boy's old track coach and the head of his draft board. Says Edwards: "It was just a matter of talking it out. Did we help him? Damn right...