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...father announced with a proud disregard for facts and figures that 'if we all put our shoulders to the wheel we could see this country through without the Goddam loan from America.' I try to explain why I think the brave, prosperous British Empire era is on the wane, and badly needs the loan. He will have none of this, stoutly believes we will win through despite this Goddam Labor Government...
...outward appearances the anti-Lapham campaign was the idea of a 73-year-old, kewpie-like man named Henry F. Budde. Little Mr. Budde is the publisher of some weekly throwaways ("You can't cancel your subscription, he'll just throw it in your goddam living room") and a paper for municipal employes. He had been a salaryless park commissioner under Mayor Angelo Rossi; Lapham did not reappoint him. More recently Budde had tried to start a "Dimes for Manila" drive; Lapham had declined to push it. Perky Mr. Budde reacted with the fury of a pinto with...
People Get Mad. His first cartoon for the P-D was an attack on wooden railroad coaches (it showed a coffin on rails). He has been wielding a blunt instrument ever since. As a result, he says: "An awful lot of people are goddam mad at me." In 1940 Fitz, his managing editor and the chief editorial writer were arrested in St. Louis because their savage pictorial attacks on civic lawlessness and injustice evoked the wrath of a judge...
John O'Hara, best selling literary specialist in big-city barflies, heels and floozies, got a thorough quoting-over from New York Post Columnist Earl Wilson, who interviewed him at a bar. O'Hara by Wilson: "If I write any extended work, I gotta goddam well get offa the booze. . . . Well, I'm going to level with you about Pal Joey. You are a guy that's got to be on the eerie, and you heard I wrote it while I was on the sauce. I didn't. I was sober ... I started...
Soon the U.S. will be able to hear most of Burrows' own Hit Parade. Some of the titles: The Girl with the Three Blue Eyes, You Ate a Hunk of My Heart, I Looked under a Rock and Found You, Walking down Memory Lane without a Goddam Thing on My Mind, Green Christmas ("I'm going to spend a green Christmas on next St. Patrick...