Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These three episodes comprise Flesh and Fantasy. A dash of the supernatural, mild surprise endings and Director Julien Duvivier (Un Carnet du Bal, Tales of Manhattan) are about all that they have in common. But polish and humor make them fairly entertaining...
...aside from pointing up the patter of visiting entertainers-is doing the script for Yankee Doodle Doo, a radio show starring Vic Oliver, Winston Churchill's son-in-law. The program goes out to U.S. and British troops, hopefully designed to teach them each other's slang, humor, point of view...
...which they are sentimentally attached, whereas U.S. troops prefer a new twist. The British do not think insults are funny, whereas U.S. boys do. One of the few common denominators that both sides share is a knowledge of Hollywood and its personalities. Block also observes that the lower the humor, the more international...
...boys came out of holes, too, carrying rifles and grenades. Packs of them screaming vengeance on the Tedeschi (the Germans) swarmed through the streets, drawing their hands menacingly across their throats, firing their guns indiscriminately. Some of them were murderers and thieves whom the Germans, with diabolic humor, had released from Naples' jails before they cleared from the city. They went through the city looting. Others were the kin of men who had been executed by German firing squads, or shot on sight for being on the streets after curfew. They sought out Neapolitan Fascists to lynch them. Yelling...
Whitney Darrow Jr., a thin, neat, nervous young man of 34, is the son of a vice president of Charles Scribner's Sons. The cartoonist went to Princeton ('31), there art-edited the Princeton Tiger. He sold his first drawings to Judge, College Humor and the old Life. After college he studied at Manhattan's famed Art Students League under Thomas Hart Benton. Says Darrow of this training: "He taught me how to roll Bull Durham cigarets." Darrow's first New Yorker appearance was a study of two girl nudists admiring a male fellow nudist: "Last...