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Fred Allen, lemoncholy dean of radio comedians, in Manhattan after completing a movie (It's in the Bag), uttered a few characteristic words about Hollywood. Actors? "Covered with hollow honors. Texas Rangers, Kentucky Colonels, Boston fire chiefs. . . . Why, I've met Rangers who couldn't get on a horse with a blueprint and two osteopaths." Actresses? "Chambermaids with caps on their teeth ... figments of their pressagents' imaginations." California? "If you're an orange, it's ideal...
...Hollow and False Church? His work in this cause was vigorous but fruitless. In 1939 there was little friendship even among the churches themselves...
...Adolf Hitler had said: "I promise you ... I could destroy the Church in a few years. It is hollow and false and rotten through and through." In the years between wars the churches did less than they might have to disprove this slander. Like many of Europe's churches, the Lutheran Church of Norway was a state establishment. Pastors living comfortably on state-provided farms and holdings were often held suspect by their poorer neighbors. Many of the common people thought them complacent and bourgeois; young intellectuals scoffed at both the Church...
Gunder ("The Wonder") Hägg, hollow-cheeked Swedish track star, ordered to report for military training in the" Swedish Army, reported for duty one day late, gave as excuse the statement that his charwoman had mislaid the induction notice, was promptly given five days in the guardhouse...
...published author by the time he was 20-though much of his town-gossip writing was pale as the moon in the morning-Irving was popular, attractive, the bearer of a charmed life from the time he suddenly got the idea for The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (he was crossing a bridge in Westchester) to the time he was captured by Mediterranean pirates. With his successful older brothers making life easy for him, Irving took his lawyer's career lightly. He had only one client, and neglected him. But he knew the old Dutch legends of the Hudson, cheerfully...