Word: goldfishing
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...from wounded dog lovers. Small children and aging widows dashed off letters and telegrams pleading for the dogs' lives. A Pennsylvania legislator said he would introduce a bill to make it forever illegal for a will to order death for "any living creature, whether it be dogs or goldfish." A dog-food manufacturer offered to feed the dogs for life...
...slept. At a press conference a few hours later, ruddy-faced, jug-eared and bearded, John Steinbeck muttered that he "got splintered this morning" and still felt "wrapped and shellacked." Later, with tongue in cheek, he explained that wrapping and shellacking is the standard formula for repairing a cracked goldfish bowl...
...Slye. Boris Karloff could not have frightened a soul as William Henry Pratt. Gypsy Rose Lee has done things that Rose Louise Hovick would presumably never do. Other real names seem to be struggling to express themselves. Merry Mickey Rooney was once Joe Yule Jr. Sam Goldwyn was Sam Goldfish. Shelley Winters was Shirley Schrift. Lili St. Cyr was Marie van Shaack. Diana Dors was Diana Fluck...
...night I attended, it was a bit slow to gather steam; but once it did, there was no flagging thereafter. He staged the waltz scene between Mamma and the Commodore with a knowing eye; and he introduced some fine touches such as having Mamma try to revive her per goldfish by artificial respiration...
MISS ESTA MAUDE'S SECRET (story and pictures by W. T. Cummings; Whittlesey House; $3.25) is as American as Our Town. Esta Maude Hay is a spinster schoolteacher who lives in a rickety house on the edge of town, with two cats, a goldfish and a parrot. She dresses in black and drives a black, vintage tin lizzie, known as "Miss Esta Maude's machine." But Esta Maude has a flaming secret vice, a racy, sin-red sports car that she drives like the wind of a Friday midnight. Author-Illustrator Cummings manages to be folksy, foxy...