Word: humors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personal Traits. Bespectacled, with a toothy mouth and a boxlike jaw, he looks more like a college professor than a politician. Unlike his father, who was a hearty laugher, he has a quiet humor and a sudden wide grin. Careless of his dress, he likes what his family calls "all-purpose" pants-he sometimes wears the same pair to the Senate, to the golf links, and to dinner. In private, he is a genial and pleasant conversational ist; on the Senate floor he is all business-cold, aggressive, persistent...
...good many editors had already beaten him to the draw. They had bought his cartoons on the strength of their wartime popularity and their often bitter humor. When Mauldin went political on them, played footie with the far left and crusaded for an understanding with Russia, papers began dropping his cartoons...
...saved by what Edmund Wilson calls Mencken's genial and acrid relish for the flavor of American life. Even more helpful are the odd anecdotes scattered through it, possessing the sort of owlish, stubborn humor that comes from wringing a subject dry and then wringing it some more. "In late years," says Mencken, "it is me has even got support from eminent statesmen. When, just before Roosevelt II's inauguration day in 1933, the first New Deal martyr, the Hon. Anton J. Cermak, was shot ... he turned to Roosevelt and said, 'I'm glad...
Major General Harry Vauqhan, 54, military aide and former World War I comrade of the President. The President greatly admires his smoking-car humor, keeps him around for laughs and as a general choreboy...
...Bond," but they are both written with conviction, if with little prospect of being sold to Glamour Magazine. Norman Zierold's essays, "A Critique of Freud," tries to be witty, but without success. It is a parody of Freud, that shows only ignorance and a distasteful sense of humor. Aune Tolstol's poem, "A Penny for the Blind Man," is the only one in the magazine. It is a poem that seems uncontrived, yet the simplicity is finely formed, and the verses give a sensitive pleasure. Signature announces that its next topic for discussion will be "Religions Opinions at College...