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...mess of trouble if the wrong people get hold of it. There is much too much standard B-picture intrigue about the diary, and it is hard to work up a healthy interest in either the story or the Senator. You just sit around and wait for another irrelevant gag, and this soon becomes a tiresome business in spite of the charming pretences of Ella Raines and Arleen Whelan. There is no doubt that election politics is a fine field for satire, but here the satire is neither gay nor is it contained within the plot...
Romeo, his voice shaky with emotion, breathed into the microphone: "By yawnder blessed moon I swear. . . ." What was Milton Berle doing under that balcony? He was acting Romeo and Juliet. And it was no gag. The new show, Play It Straight (on Manhattan's WNEW), would give radio's funnymen a chance to indulge their traditional and unsinkable ambition to play Hamlet-or any other long-faced role they fancied...
...went along with the gag. He was "Prexy," the general manager's office was labeled "Dean," overseers became "professors," lavatories were marked "Boys" and "Girls,"the workers became "students." Then Joe started a real school, with eleven courses in textile technique (one class a week) for Crown workers. Joe's idea was to train workers for the new cost-cutting machines and processes he was constantly installing in his plants. It paid off double; the school became so popular that during the worst of the manpower shortage Joe had more applicants than he could hire...
Died. Albert Carl Grzesinski, 68, German democrat, Minister of the Interior (1926-30) for the Weimar Republic; of pneumonia; in Queens, N.Y. In 1931, as Berlin's Police President, he tried to gag Rabble-Rouser Hitler, ordered him deported as an undesirable alien, but Chancellor Heinrich Brüning did not sign the order, and a year later the Nazis hounded Grzesinski out of the country...
Prodding & Patience. At week's start, the Republicans suffered a serious tactical defeat when they tried, under a gag rule, to ram a token anti-inflation bill through the House. But after House Democrats, in an unusual show of solidarity, had smashed the bill (TIME, Dec. 22), Ohio's Bob Taft did a statesmanlike job of picking up the pieces in the Senate...