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...nurse was sure he was not crazy. > One newspaper report leered that Hess's toenails were painted red. > Collier's Correspondent William Hillman broadcast that Hess had been converted to Buchmanism, had flown to Britain to "share" his sins. > Said Parliament's court jester, A. P. Herbert: "One day it may be these islands will shake to an unprecedented thud as Reich Marshal Göring-a parachute at each corner-settles on and perhaps submerges the Isle of Wight or Skye." > A London newsie chalked on his placard "Extra! Return of Loch Ness Monster." > Other professional...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Hessteria | 5/26/1941 | See Source »

Richardson the mound for lampy, while W. R. Zwonkas Sisson the Bench. Meanwhile that Pollak with a Bowle knife will Cutler throat of E. P. Zwonkas Jester see the Crimson over all (blood of course...

Author: By Hu FLUNG Huey occ., | Title: ZIMMERMAN OR SHINE CRIME BATS OUT A HIGHBALL OR TWO | 6/12/1940 | See Source »

Highlights in the 49 year jester-journalist diamond rivalry were recalled by veteran observers and innocent bystanders yesterday. They agreed that the greatest thriller of the series was the 1902 game, when a powerful Lampoon outfit (whose entire infield was later sold to the Brooklyn Dodgers for a song) when down in defeat, 23 to 2, after a pitchers' duel that lasted 25 innings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LAMPY'S FEBRILITY FORCES CRIMSON TO POSTPONE BASEBALL FRACAS | 5/21/1940 | See Source »

Aretino wrote the beast's Last Will & Testament, assigning Hanno's various organs to those cardinals they most scandalously fitted. Leo made him his court jester, and on the next fat chance-a series of verses burlesquing the deadlocked conclave that followed Leo's death-Aretino made himself famous all over Europe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Resurrection | 3/18/1940 | See Source »

Probably never had a better singing cast performed it: the Metropolitan Opera's Tenor Charles Kullmann and Soprano Hilda Burke in the leads, Contralto Anna Kaskas as the housekeeper, cadaverous Singer-Actor Richard Hale as broken hearted Jester Jack Point...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: In Central City | 7/24/1939 | See Source »

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