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...they refused to tell all about their incomes. He added, threateningly, that he would quit if the President refused to act. He tramped on the President's toes even harder by sniping at Ambassador to Mexico Bill O'Dwyer and Truman's longtime pal and palace jester, General Harry Vaughan...
John Updike's cartoon in the current Lampoon is certainly funny, but old Blot and Jester were leading with their chins when they ran it. The cartoon, which shows two Advocate editors piecing together an issue from a short story anthology, only serves to call one's attention to the four reprints in the 'Poon. And since the editors find it so hard to fill their magazine with new material, they might well change the name of the Lampoon to the Updike Gazette and persuade their talented colleague to do the whole thing...
...spite of his classical learning, which he still pursues with delight, he lards his speech with outmoded slang and zealously drops the g's of his present participles. He is a jester, a moralist, a preacher and-even off the bench-a judge. Socially he is unpredictable. A tall story, for example, may find him just politely receptive, with a sideways turn of the head, a half-attentive smile, and a "Well, you don't say." Or it may immediately detonate an incredulous guffaw, ending with a murmured "Well, by golly! Can you beat that...
...feel like the fellow who burped in church and created a lot of attention, all of it bad," said White House Jester George Allen mournfully. Allen's faux pas was a letter which he had co-sponsored with another fervent Truman Democrat, New Mexico's Senator Clinton Anderson, and mailed to selected businessmen around the country. It began by suggesting that a special archives building should be constructed on Harry Truman's farm at Grandview, Mo., to keep the papers of the Truman Administration, much as Franklin Roosevelt's are kept at Hyde Park...
...King's favorites is a little Italian named Pulley Bey, a former palace barber and electrician whom (so the story goes) Farouk used to follow around when he was a child, watching with fascination as he screwed in light bulbs. Now he is a combination court jester and general handy man, recruits poker partners and, occasionally, pretty dancing partners; Tabet, Pulley and a half dozen similar hangers-on are generally believed to be neck-deep in graft, were implicated in the scandal of the sale of faulty arms to the Egyptian army, uncovered after the Arab-Israeli...