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With his developed prowess, Jose skillfully makes another shot. Grr! But I am not to be defeated! I steal his rebound and the ball is mine again to shoot. Jose taunts, “Don’t miss. Don’t miss. Don’t miss.” To my chagrin, I do. But I’m still loving this...
...CHURCHILL CANVAS, by John Spencer Churchill (308 pp.; Little, Brown; $5.75). Uncle could ape a gorilla as well as any man who ever lived. "Grr, grr," he would roar, and then crouch in the branches of an oak, "baring his teeth and pounding his chest with his fists." At the beach, Uncle was always the engineer who mobilized the children to build a fortress of sand against the rising tide: "More sand for the outer defenses! Stop the moat from flooding! Hurry!" Uncle also happened to be Winston Churchill, and upon this familial foundation John Spencer Churchill-a painter specializing...
...will have no official name. Dr. Hopkins has called it illinium. Mr. Glendenin wants to call it prometheum after the Greek god Prometheus, giver of fire. One convention wag suggested grovesium, after loud-mouthed Major General Leslie R. Groves, military chief of the atom bomb project. Chemical symbol: Grr...
Clark's success rests partly on skill: he knows cold every comedy trick that vaudeville and burlesque, those hardest of taskmasters, can teach. But his success rests equally on personality. He is the little man who is a little mad; the fellow who, leering behind painted specs or grr-r-ring like a wolf, seems ready to leap at a woman or over a wall. Meanwhile, he remains in frantic, if aimless motion. There are more explosive comics (Durante, for one) than Bobby Clark; but none in whom so much seems just about to explode...
Anna Boettiger (rhymes with hot-i-grr), tall, rangy, good-natured and now 38, is also on hand to make sure that the President follows his new, relaxed routine...
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