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Sirens screaming and horn ablare, Benton & Bowles are riding the air. Tinsel and paint and a jester's cap, Tinkling bells and a moit of pap, Under our elms and over our maples Selling themselves as they sold their staples...
Since last year's Senate inquiry into his habits of dispensing various favors in return for an occasional home-freeze unit, Major General Harry Hawkins Vaughan, court jester and military aide to the President, has led a relatively quiet life. He has also curbed his old habit of making such public observations as "Winston Churchill is a garrulous old gentleman." Last week, just as people were beginning to ask "Whatever became of Harry Vaughan?", he reappeared briefly upon the scene...
...first issue, The New Yorker promised "to be gay, humorous, satirical, but to be more than a jester . . ." It also announced firmly that it was not intended "for the old lady in Dubuque." More than a jester, today's New Yorker eyes far wider horizons than Manhattan's skylines. It travels with its "farflung correspondents" all the way from Third Avenue's saloons to Hiroshima, considers life and letters, as well as laughter, its province. Two-thirds of its 325,000 circulation is outside New York; it has 69 subscribers in Dubuque. Harold Ross, founder, editor...
While Lawyer Pomerantz did his best to convince the court that the Government had used, then destroyed or concealed data that would prove the whole case was based on inadmissible evidence, his fellow counsel, noisy little Archie Palmer, bounced around the courtroom in his familiar court jester's manner. "I don't know whether your unorthodox tactics are the result of contemptuous buffoonery or personal eccentricity," the judge finally exploded at one point, "but I want them stopped...
Throughout all the demonstrations, Dr. Moreno stood at the edge of the stage ready to slap and shove his actors into giving a more lively performance. Sometimes he functioned as a kind of jester, making pertinent wisecracks about the going-on. At other times, he appeared to be meditating, with chin resting on chest, one hand across his back and the other across his heart...