Word: humoredly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Caswell (Cas) Adams, 51, witty, gently satiric sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune and Journal-American, King Features); following a cerebral stroke suffered Feb. 10; in Manhasset, N.Y. Generally credited with coining the name "Ivy League," Adams co-authored (with H. T. Webster) humor books (How to Torture Your Wife), broke the story (in November 1941) of football's greatest spoof-the mythical Plainfield Teachers College, invented by Stockbroker Morris Newburger, which each Saturday "defeated" fictitious opponents (Scott, Randolph Tech) largely through the exploits of a hard-running Chinese back named John Chung. After New York newspapers solemnly printed...
...story, and in the telling of it, British Director David Lean (Brief Encounter, Great Expectations) does a whale of a job. He shows a dazzlingly musical sense and control of the many and involving rhythms of a vast composition. He shows a rare sense of humor and a feeling for the poetry of situation; and he shows the even rarer ability to express these things, not in lines but in lives. Most important of all, he understands the real nature of the story he is telling. The film cries from the depths of personal disaster and impersonal fate that...
...Kerr is a clever writer, more talented at writing parodies than describing a contrived and exaggerated family situation. After fifty pages of the Kerr family, her humor becomes strained and uninteresting...
Parkinson's Law is the best of these three books. It is original, subtle, and genial. Professor Parkinson's humor is neither outrageous nor mundane. And unlike Kerr and Wright, he does not write for the Saturday Evening Post audience or the suburban literati...
...Heroic Soul: Poems of Patriotism (Decca). One of the "Parnassus" series on such primary emotions as love, faith, humor and patriotism. This record tempers its heroics with taste, especially in Arnold Moss's reading of Whitman's When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd and Longfellow's The Building of the Ship...