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...Like watching the March hare playing tricks on an indulgent mad hatter," said the Manchester Guardian of Harpo & Chico Marx, now appearing on the London stage (Groucho was at home). The London Times burbled: "What makes these great clowns is this combination of fun and fantasy with something else, a mixture of worldly wisdom and naïveté, of experience but also of an innocence never altogether lost, of dignity and absurdity together, so that for a moment we love and we applaud mankind...
Toward the Welfare State. On the pediment of the east face of the Supreme Court Building are some marble figures illustrating the fable of the hare and the tortoise, the moral of which was "Slow & steady wins the race." The inference is that the court's function is to plod along at a slow, safe pace, with proper judicial warnings to a sometimes harebrained, galloping Senate & House. At this moment in history, however, it was the conservative Senate & House who were plodding along, passing no broad social legislation...
...juridical tortoise sometimes tried to prod the hare awake. It hinted that Congress might liberalize some of its laws. It would not stand in the way of legislation leading toward the welfare state...
...Undercover Man (Columbia) is another hare & hounds episode produced with the help of U.S. Government files. The hare in this instance is a character called "The Big Fellow" who never appears on the screen, but who seems to be modeled on the late Al Capone. Heading the hounds is Glenn Ford as a Government T-man who is out to nail The Big Fellow on a $3,000,000 tax-evasion...
...Bunnies grabbed at their last chance, and doubles by whit Calkins and Fabe Bradbury drove in the fifth and last Leverett tally. Don Hare, of the Hutch, made the only other extra base bit of the game, a triple...