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...where they found just two statues of Favorite Son Joe Stalin) to Armenia. Some of the events on their itinerary were less than enlightening. In a Tashkent opera house, the six sat yawning through a two-hour program of eulogies for an obscure poet, but managed to salvage a guffaw when a Canadian Communist named Tim Buck stood up to describe how the local hero-who wrote in Uzbek -had given Buck's fellow Canadians "great inspiration fighting imperialists and warmongers...
...Bennett, armed with the heretical notion that a newspaper should be "impudent and intrusive," invaded two untouched news areas-finance and society-exposing the market swindles of the moneyed and reporting with little respect the social pretensions of their wives. On dull days, he twitted blue noses; one editorial guffaw at unmentionability taunted : "Petticoats-petticoats-petticoats; there, you fastidious fools, vent your mawkishness on that." Old Bennett was horsewhipped with a frequency startling even for a time when this was a customary way for readers to suggest disapproval. He showed little resentment of the whippings and reported them fully...
...management of a bal-musette. The words for the climaxes of love are not Lawrentian evocations of the impossible mysteries of sex but "paff! paff! After that it's paff, paff, paff!" Miller moves into the most preposterous bedrooms like a voyeur without curiosity-only with a hoarse guffaw and a derisive yet somehow kindly eye for farce and foible...
...trimmed galoshes (borrowed for the occasion from her teen-age daughter). Then she headed resolutely for the reception line. A Swedish official in a white sweater kissed her hand. Danny Kaye stopped to chat for a moment, and Art Linkletter, in a shaggy bearskin scrape, got a guffaw from Dick Nixon, and a comment: "Is this man or beast?" Then a stocky man in a blue-and-white Norwegian sweater came by. "I'm Bob Bennett," he said. "I'm sure you don't remember me, but I'd like to shake your hand." Replied...
...Jack Paar's TV show and CBS's freewheeling Keep Talking got him national attention and a chance to be the kind of comedian he likes-a sad-faced funnyman whose effortless humor seems spontaneous but is the product of endless preparation. "People don't guffaw just looking at me," says he. "I have to compensate for that. I read obituary columns. I call hospitals and ask how things are in surgery. Little things that keep me sad. I shy away from people who say good morning. What we need is not sick humor but healthy adversity...