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Although he once rebelled at western costumes, he now-in keeping with his mission-wears a ten-gallon hat and cowboy boots at all times. He is also convinced that his public does not consider him an actor, but simply a friend-a sort^ of ^benign but colorful uncle whom it instinctively wants to invite for dinner...
Money doesn't worry Louis any more than his taste in music. He leaves all that to his manager and friend-a man Louis, with a kind of plantation politeness, still calls "Mister" Glaser. Joe Glaser, a tough, smart ex-fight manager, pays Louis' income tax, looks after his insurance, protects him from lawsuits and handles all the financial details of the band, including payment of the other men. Louis has never read his contract, never questioned Glaser's plans for him. Glaser says: "I'm Louis and Louis is me. There's nothing...
Modest Clarence Friend-a fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society of London and a member of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada-does not speculate out loud on the age-old mystery of comets. Says the amateur expert: "Nobody knows where they go or how they are formed...
Fellow Creature. In Petrusberg, South Africa, churchgoers voted not to get rid of a friend-a cobra who lived in the ceiling, always came out to listen when the organist played the organ's flute stops, fled back to its hole when the preaching started...
...Shakespeare at the "Boudoir Theatre." By way of advertisement, he filled his splendid barouche-three white horses pulling on the right, three black horses on the left-with buxom wasp-waisted actresses in picture hats. But his mistress refused to. believe it mere advertisement, cuckolded him with his best friend-a double-dealing popinjay-and broke his heart. The popinjay, balked in blackmailing Jubilee Jim, shot him dead. Tammany-Boss Tweed and Jay Gould sorrowed sincerely; the masses, damp-eyed, mourned vociferously...