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...kind of fellow a lot of them (including Cartoonist Fisher) would like to be. He is big, strong, good-looking and popular; his hefty right always triumphs, often over eye-gouging, foul-fighting opponents. He hobnobs with a lot of celebrities without getting stuck up. An inveterate name-dropper himself, stocky Cartoonist Fisher populates his strip with real people, e.g., Bing Crosby, Tom Clark, Jack Dempsey, and models many of his fictional characters on other celebrities. Humphrey Pennyworth, an engaging, potbellied giant, was inspired by Manhattan Restaurant-Man Toots Shor...
Beware of Pity (J. Arthur Rank) is a cinemadaptation of Stefan Zweig's novel, one of those puddle-depth stories that, draining themselves with a sort of literary eye dropper, pretend to contain oceans of ideas. The tedious technique might seem justified if it conveyed vivid people, or even lively situations. Beware of Pity conveys only one droplet of an idea (there are two kinds of pity: good & bad) diluted in gallons of plot...
Ickes "was as prickly a customer to handle in those days as he is today. . . . He was so anxious to keep graft and politics out of the public works program that he practically spent money through a medicine dropper. Ickes' slowness in making decisions was sometimes a real handicap. . . . Public works projects were frequently [so] slow in getting started [that] expenditures for them were . . . made after instead of before the crises had passed their peaks...
...gutter to find a hero." To prove it, Peg unwrapped a 1929 Sullivan column eulogizing Frank Marlow, a murdered Manhattan mobster ("Goodbye, Frank, and God bless you."). Pegler's verdict on Sullivan: "A prideful intimacy with many of the worst gangsters ... a professional name-dropper, a grown-up but still callow Saturday night sport...
Patterson does not pretend to do the farming. He lets the caretaker and his wife do the chores. "The extent of my help," he gags, "is when I hold a chicken while someone doses it with an eye dropper." Usually he spends his time horseback riding, fishing in his lake or playing catch with his son. When mink began to eat his fish recently, the caretaker trapped the mink, and they are being made into a neckpiece for Mrs. Patterson...