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...past three years, New York Yankee fans have been treated to the rough & ready English of Dizzy Dean and the schoolboy precision of Joe DiMaggio, who even read his interviews from scripts. Last week the fans got a new radio & TV announcer, and the gabbiest one of all: old-time Movie Comic Joe E. Brown...
Wrath & Terror. Unhappily, Author Hersey chooses to tell the story in novel form, and employs one of the oldest and least effective technical tricks for giving fiction the authentic tang of fact: he pretends that he is merely the editor of papers written by Eyewitness Noach Levinson. This gabbiest of notetakers is supposed to have lived out the days of wrath and terror pen in hand, documenting the horror minute by minute, until he had built up a jumbo collection of manuscript and clippings filling 17 iron boxes and a number of parcels. These he buried before slipping away through...
Married. Julius ("Groucho") Marx, 54, gabbiest of the lady-ogling Marx Brothers; and Catherine Mavis Gorcey, 24, singing starlet and ex-wife of deadpan Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey; both for the second time; in Hollywood...
Britain's gabbiest second fronter-the fierce-tongued Lord Beaverbrook-could never go to bed until his R.A.F. elder son had phoned him: "All's well-goodnight!" For Wing Commander Max Aitken, 32, is the apple of the Beaver's eye. Some said it was the Beaver who got Max grounded in the Air Ministry last year. But it was only temporarily. Flying a Beaufighter, Son Max landed last week with a cocky message for the Beaver: he had bagged two Nazi bombers over Britain, bringing his total to twelve...
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