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...first show, The Service for Joseph Axminister, written by George Dennison, is a bland serving of existentialism dished out the self-conscious way the man who created the TV Batman would have done it. Alas, despite its mellow content, it will make you gag...
...gag writer for Bob Hope for five years and a successful stand-up comedian himself, Price claims he has "bummed around" for the last few years. At 44, he plans to "go straight" now and devote most of his time to Grump. "Today's humor is like frozen food," he says. "Children grow up not only ignorant of what real, good food is but also of what real humor is." Price hopes to enrich their diet...
...cowboys, from French amorists to supranational cool-jazz combos. In a beer garden, a band of Tyrolean-hatted minstrels is cleaving the air with Bavarian bonhomie, when suddenly the guitars are spitting like machine guns, a momentary lapse into the old Wehrmacht tunes of glory. In a sight gag of suspended comic torment, a girl blowing up a balloon reduces a Buckingham Palace guard from graven aplomb to jittering hysteria...
...soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were self-deprecating chortles ("My profile looks like a fish") and gag-filled larks (the papers ran a picture of him playing an accordion in a combo with Greer Garson on maracas, Danny Kaye on bass and Cesar Romero on fiddle). He dubbed the piano score for a film (I've Always Loved You) and collected $85,000 for the three days' work...
...transmit it to the next generation in impaired form." Mansfield countered with harsh words. He decried "the resentments, the irritations, the vendettas and the whatevers against organized labor" that had prompted the talkathon. Noting the Senate's historic reluctance to restrict debate, Mansfield reasoned: "The Senate will not gag itself by voting to adopt cloture. On the contrary, if the Senate does adopt cloture, it will free itself from the passion and perversity which, since the end of the last session, have held this institution in a deadly strangle hold...