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...form of a fat cigar. O'Malley is a thoroughgoing Micawber-type fraud who never brings off his constantly promised miracles, but never alienates his small disciple's faith in him. O'Malley's companions are: 1) Atlas the Mental Giant, a bull-necked gnome who computes all problems on a slide rule; 2) Launcelot McSnoyd, an invisible leprechaun who speaks thick Brooklynese; 3) Gus the Ghost, an ectoplasmic intellectual who ghostwrites O'Malley's autobiography when O'Malley runs for Congress. There is also a talking dog, Gorgon ("Didn't know...
...Office of Civilian Requirements, headless and neglected since shy, gnome-like Arthur Dare Whiteside went back to run Dun & Bradstreet three months ago, last week got a new boss and a vigorous new policy. Off went the lid which WPB clamped down six weeks ago on any sizable increase in manufacturing civilian goods...
...oldest, was a horse-faced, clean-shaven, lipless veteran of World War I who told his story coldly. Weak-chinned, pompadoured Reinhard Retslow, 36, an agent of the Secret Field Police, was bored, contemptuous. Lieut. Hans Ritz, 24, was a small man with a caved-in chest, a gnome-like bald head and an infantile expression. The fourth defendant, Mikhail Petrovich Bulanov, was a Russian who had hired himself out as a chauffeur of a Nazi death van; beneath close-drawn eyebrows his eyes peered sharply at the court as the tribunal secretary read the four men's confessions...
Died. Peter Foley, 87, the 26-mile Boston Marathon's Methuselah; in Winchester, Mass. Rating his best place (twelfth) at 50, the white-and-pink-trunked gnome finished 41st in a field of 100 when he was 70, hung up his shoes at 82. He trained on long walks, short ales...
This was the Florida of the headlines, of the columns, of salesgirls' dreams. It was the Florida which Columnist Lucius Beebe last week called "the last Gomorrah, the ultimate Babylon, the final Gnome-Rhone-Jupiter-Whirlwind, superdeluxe, extra-special, colossal, double-feature and Zombie-ridden madhouse of the world." And it was as far from the rest of Florida as Mr. Beebe was from the many-millioned humanity of his own Manhattan...