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Whatever Sadakichi was when he began, by the late '30s and early '40s he was a prince of moochers and a court jester to an aging band of once rollicking Hollywood musketeers who met irregularly in the studio of West Coast Painter John Decker. Barrymore. Fields, Decker and Sadakichi each had one foot in the grave and one hand on the bottle. In the guise of Sadakichi's biographer. Fowler drops many a footnote to their bibulous, gay-gallant last stand in his sprightly Minutes of the Last Meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Eccentric's Eccentric | 4/5/1954 | See Source »

...Dear Jester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Memo | 2/24/1954 | See Source »

...most of which was earmarked for needed restoration. More serious repairs, particularly a new tiled roof, are planned. Often during Cambridge's ample rains, rivulets of water trickle down the rough, brick walls, and gathering in pools on the floor of the Great Hall, remind Blot and Jester that the Lampoon needs renovation once again...

Author: By Dennis E. Brown, | Title: Flemish Birdhouse | 2/20/1954 | See Source »

...green-domed mosque, the Haussa mingled with their Moslem coreligionists, the fierce Fulani, and waited in the midday sun for the decision that would come from the palace. Abdullah Bayero, the fat and scented Emir of Kano, was wrestling with a problem. Both the royal flatterer and the court jester cowered in the background as he pounded across the Oriental rugs in the baked mud stronghold. At last the emir spoke: "Tell the Southerner my answer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bloodshed in Nigeria | 6/1/1953 | See Source »

...Never mind that now," puffed the Jester, "we've got bigger problems. Our Ibis is gone again...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Lampoon | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

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