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...game in which garrulous George Allen, Franklin Roosevelt's political handyman, Harry Truman's White House jester and Dwight Eisenhower's golf companion, was Cumberland's captain. As George tells it, he made Cumberland's best run: "I only lost six yards...
...only two U.S. playboys whose follies still seem like madcap hangovers from the Roaring Twenties are aging Asbestoscion Tommy Manville, due to turn 61 this week, and the heir apparent to the jester's cap, bibulous Sugar Daddy Adolph B. (Honey Dew) Spreckels II, 43. Last week both Manville and Spreckels, the veterans of a total of 15 marriages, 13 divorces, two separations, were entangled with the law and women as usual. In Manhattan, Playboy Manville, haled into court by wife No. 9, Anita Roddy-Eden Manville, and asked to prove that he is not worth at least...
There are other bright notes. P. H. C. Williams' "Yale Weekend 1954" is cleverly whimsical, and the Blot-Jester dialogue jabs gently at the Yale Record in the usual lucid style of the department. Best of all in the issue is a smooth study of an intemporate Uncle Charlie. The author, RDH, is otherwise unidentified in the issue, however, which would suggest that the article has been reprinted from a past issue...
Chou En-lai of Peking moved through Europe with the relaxed grace of a conqueror. He savored pâté de foie gras and raspberries with Mendès-France; he sipped wine with three Chinese actresses and an Occidental jester, Charlie Chaplin...
...parody of seventeenth century German wood cutting. Naturally, it depicts spring, and features a shepherd scattering what seem to be peanuts to indignant sheep and goats. With woodcut rampant on a green field, it is one of the best covers in a good while. In the editorial, too, Jester weighs the memory of faded beauties with the immediacy of a fine spring day, and the latter triumphs...