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...April Fool's Day, three weeks ago, BBC's German program included a phony Hitler broadcast: "America needs an outlet to the sea. I've never disputed that. . . . But in the U. S. there live national minorities cut off from their European homelands. In Chicago alone there are 324,000 Czechs ... in the well-known city of New York there are 476,000 Poles. . . . I'm very grateful to Mr. Roosevelt for his interest in European affairs: I'm proving my gratitude by declaring the German protectorate over the U. S. I shall make America...
...hope you have lost your good looks; for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No: give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins. . . . Then you shall see me come out strong." So wrote, not perverse Jonathan Swift to his 18th-Century Stella, but moonstruck, middle-aged George Bernard Shaw to the lovely Mrs. Patrick Campbell. Year after year, in a stream extending from the '90s till long after the war, the most merciless of scoffers wrote the lady the most extravagant of love...
Altogether the volume is an uncommonly interesting psychological document: touching, somehow admirable case history of an international vagabond, a semi-Dostoevskian, a naïve sophisticate and speculative researcher. It is also a huge chunk of undercured, surprisingly palatable ham. The author is nobody's fool, except perhaps (as he freely grants...
...April Fool's Eve, two Sundays ago, Jack Benny in his NBC radio half-hour held an imaginary telephone conversation with Orson Welles, jokingly blamed recent sunspot magnetic storms on him, worried about the end of the world. In Philadelphia, Press Agent William A. A. Castellini of the Fels Planetarium telegraphed Benny, care of Station KYW: "Your worst fears that world will end are confirmed by astronomers of the Franklin Institute. Scientists predict that the world will end at 3 p. m. E. S. T. April 1." A KYW announcer read the telegram-an obvious plug for a Planetarium...
...spoken and shrewd--he's one of the smartest showmen around. Staying up on the top as an ace attraction for years is no small job--and he's still doing it. And don't let any of this stuff about Cab being king of the tea (marihuanja) fiends fool you. He wouldn't still be going if he consumed the amount of dope he was reputed to. This whackiness legend is strictly for the customers...