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...lecture by Single-Taxer Henry George convinced George Bernard Shaw that modern society was ill-made and needed to be completely rebuilt. Since then (1882), Shaw has played to perfection the role of the world's gadfly jester. In turn, the world has stared at him with amused perplexity, never certain when Shaw was serious and always a little bewildered about the meaning of his dazzlingly written but contradictory plays and prefaces...
Handle Dept. In Westport, Conn., Howard Gagg married Matilda Jester. In Camp Kilmer, N.J., the Army returned a pistol confiscated from C. E. Outlaw of Guntown, Miss...
...country kids no longer had the fair to themselves. By then, all seven of the main gates were open, and through them streamed goggle-eyed Texans by the thousands (total attendance for the day: 212,-662-a record). Soon, amid a great blaring of sirens, Governor Beauford Jester drove up in a big open car, cut a ribbon with a pair of golden scissors and delivered a speech inflated with standard Texasity...
...reputation as a court jester for Hollywood sophisticates troubles Abe. He resents being called a cynic: "Cynics disbelieve real things; I disbelieve phonies." He claims he is working roughly along the lines of Will Rogers, except that he uses a piano instead of a rope. "The people . . . are just like me. ... I don't want to talk like Carl Sandburg, but I like the people...
...Citizens of muddy, dingy Italy, Texas (pop. 1,258) prepared to set an example for the nation by shining up their town. They prepared so vehemently that Governor Beauford Jester proclaimed a special "Italy Day." Last week 1,000 people turned to for the blitz against grime, in one day cleaned up vacant lots, hosed down streets, planted flowers, painted buildings in the drab business section a gleaming white...