Word: ducked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ickes' deputy in charge of Petroleum Coordinating, the man for oilmen to see, will be Texan Alvin J. ("Senator") Wirtz, who is no Donald Duck and should help make up for Ickes' personal unpopularity in the oil fields. Last week the deputy-to-be was in Texas, running White-House-backed Lyndon Baines Johnson's campaign (against Pass-the-Biscuits-Pappy O'Daniel, Martin Dies, et al.) for the Senate...
...glimpses of a forthcoming full-length cartoon about a baby circus elephant named Dumbo whose enormous ears mortify him to tears until he becomes an overnight sensation by learning to fly with them; of another full-lengther, Bambi, and its leading man, a little white-tailed fawn; of Donald Duck down on the farm...
...historian, Critic Rascoe is angrily allergic to legend. He worries old news paper accounts like a terrier, impatiently separates fact from fiction, sometimes makes the reader, impatient while doing it. He denies the legend that when one of her unlovely lovers called "Blue Duck" (see cut, p. 87} was fleeced by gamblers of $2,000, Belle stuck up the joint, took $7,000, told the flabbergasted sharpers they could get the change later...
Oblivious of "Mickey the Dude," Coles Phinizy dined on duck and champagne last night, looking into the eyes of his post-mortem Harlow, and flanked by her publicity manager who has succeeded in flying his way into the soup of every man on both the CRIMSON and the Lampoon...
...remainder of the program is a hodge-podge of Information Please, Robert Benchley, Donald Duck, the FBI, and Mrs. Roosevelt...