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...went to Boston"). He managing-edited Conde Nast's brilliant Vanity Fair, wrote drama criticism for the old Life and the New Yorker. Though no mean cracksman ("I've got to get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini"), he shunned the out-&-out gag, preferred to get his laughs while puttering among the minor catastrophes and major banalities of everyday life...
This week Howard Lindsay and Russel McKinley ("Buck") Grouse were gilt-edging the gag that once dubbed them "the most successful collaborators since the Smith Brothers." They had written the biggest smash, thus far, of the season.* They had, unprecedentedly in Broadway history, two current hits that had opened six years apart, † And with eleven years of co-authoring, co-adapting, co-producing behind them, they had seven successes to their credit against one lone flop (Strip for Action...
Proud of its handiwork, the Ways & Means Committee prepared at week's end to take its tax bill to the House floor, to push it through under the "gag" rule, which bars the submission of amendments by any but committee members...
...that we shall never be rid of the adolescent problem in American society. From the immensely funny "Brother Rat" to "Mr. Cooper's Left Hand," almost every possible joke about the teen-age boy or girl has been invented or exhumed. The wear and tear on such plots and gag-situations has been beyond belief, but the new show at the Wilbur shows the-horrible position in a new light...
West Coast anti-Nisei prejudice (see cut). It gave promise that in peace, as in war, young Bill Mauldin might be something better than a gag...