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...humor. ("I only drink to steady my nerves. And sometimes I get so steady I can't move.") He has long been known as "the comic's comic"a polite way of saying that he has never been widely popular with the public-and as a famous heckler-heckler. ("Come down to the pool in the morning, and I'll give you lessons in drowning...
...eyes with which he regarded life were to be widely hailed as the attributes of a pungent social satirist. He was both more and less than that; in his best years, he was one of the funniest comedians in the U.S.; in lesser, later years he was an embittered heckler of most post-Allen entertainment...
Dispatched Heckler. Returning to Washington, Ike next day headed a National Security Council meeting, prepared campaign treks: a one-day sortie into Virginia and Florida, another to Tennessee, Texas and Oklahoma. Meanwhile, the White House neatly dispatched a heckler. Columnist Drew Pearson's report that Ike had suffered a relapse in Minneapolis during his swing last fortnight (see PRESS) was categorically denied by Press Secretary James Hagerty, and later by scores of Minneapolis officials and police guards who shook hands with Ike just before his departure. At week's end the President entered Walter Reed Hospital...
...pass through the canal. "If the Egyptian government should seek to interfere ["Deliberate provocation!" cried a Laborite] with the operations of the association or refuse to extend to it the essential minimum of cooperation, then that government will once more be in breach of the Convention of 1888." A heckler shouted: "What a peacemaker...
Long & Strong. "How much am I bid for Mike Souchak?" called Wershow as he got ready to knock down one of last year's top moneywinners. "Who's he?" yelled a wiseacre. Wershow ignored the heckler. "He is long and very strong. He likes the course. He is playing well. How much for Souchak?" Quickly the bidding climbed, and Souchak, for $11,000, went to a bidder named Walter Marty, reportedly representing eastern gamblers...