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First cinema appearance of "New Face" Parkyakarkus was in Strike Me Pink (1936), as Eddie Cantor's stooge. As freakish, though not so foolish, as his soubriquet, Parkyakarkus is really Harry Einstein, a onetime Boston advertising writer who, when his friends found his Greek dialect monologs at parties hilariously funny, decided to merchandise his specialty. Response to a few local broadcasts encouraged him to apply for a spot on the nationwide radio hour of Funnyman Cantor, whom he had met socially. From radio, he went to Hollywood. "Parkyakarkus" is an adaptation of the informal invitation with which Dr. Einstein...
Everyone was aware by last week that the U. S. had had a freakish winter. Easterners had warm, muggy weather with almost no snow. The greatest floods on record poured down the Ohio and Mississippi valleys. California orange-growers were hit by a cold snap such as they had not known for years. Dr. Krick bobbed up with a pat explanation for these phenomena. This 31-year-old meteorologist, who was a stockbroker's assistant and once a piano accompanist, predicted last September that Southern California was in for a cold, wet winter. He believes that, although the boundaries...
Permit me to quote briefly from a bulletin of instructions which I have been mailing to prospective contributors since 1929: "Popular Science Monthly is interested in facts-actualities- things-and not ideas. Nothing of a grotesque, fanciful, or freakish nature is published...
...rescue tour, worried aloud over the possibility of a "weather change" which might be turning the U. S. into a desert. "Of course," he declared, "it is premature to say that our weather has definitely changed, but if we have during the next seven years, weather as freakish as that which we have had during the last seven, it may well be that the people of the U. S. will call on the Federal Government in no unmistakable terms to aid them in making certain profound adjustments...
...Freakish as that play seemed, it nevertheless was not U. S. Football's curiosity-of-the-week. That distinction went to a mystification at the University of California at Los Angeles which was taking on the proportions of a national sports scandal...