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KENNETH J. GULP Overland Park, Kans...
They say there are people who don't think W.C. Fields is the funniest man in the world. Such individuals probably put mayonaise in their caviar and drink rare old brandy at a single gulp, and they should be eliminated from society. There is no one like Fields: eating an ice cream soda ("This scene was supposed to be in a bar"), cheating small children, causing old women to faint and then accusing them of drunkenness, short-changing rubes--he is as ever in this latest pair of revivals...
...they argued, if whisky were sold legally-and taxed-instead of just sloshing around the state as contraband, making cops greedy and bootleggers rich. This appeal to sweet reason was dramatized by the fact that the repeal group's leader, Tulsa Attorney Albert G. Kulp (rhymes with gulp), was a bone-dry teetotaler himself...
With a quick, behind-the-curtains scuffle of secret operatives and an embarrassed official gulp, the U.S. Government last week rushed a prize exhibit offstage. The exhibit was ist Lieut. Anatoly Barsov, formerly of the Soviet Air Force...
Just because business was looking a little queasy, the U.A.W. was not going to go easy on it. Reuther came armed with studies showing, he said, that the industry could raise wages 70? an hour and still make 8% on its investment. Said Reuther in one huge gulp: "This is the time for labor to stand up and say we are getting in trouble because the little guy hasn't got enough and therefore he has to fight harder now to get what he is entitled to in order to avoid going into a depression...