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The Treasury's 918 pages bristle with songs and stories about Paul Bunyan, Old Stormalong, John Henry, Johnny Apple, seed, The Arkansas Traveler, backwoods boasters, killers, patron saints, miracle men - with many an anecdote, joke, tall tale, proverb, animal and ghost story, jingle, ballad, and hunks of widely known...
As Dick Powell, Franchot Tone and the other players lather it on, True To Life is likable, sometimes genuinely laughable. Surest laugh-getter is Victor Moore. His catastrophic demonstration of "breakfast made easy," is a cute enough kidding of rampant gadgetry to recall the alltime master, Buster Keaton.' Nearly...
Just about the funniest thing in the whole story was the beginning, which quoted in double column italics the jingle about the place where the "Lowells spoke only to Cabots, and Cabots spoke only to God," Except in the Boston Herald, that ditty is always used about the city of...
As he praised bee-busy workers at a Portland, Ore. launching, Rear Admiral Emory Scott Land, salty chairman of the Maritime Commission, was reminded of a jingle. Hastily doctored transcriptions of the talk (broadcast later):
More embarrassing to Ed Flynn than anything which took place in Washington was the fact that 3,000 miles away another Flynn-impulsive Cinemactor Errol-was also undergoing a personal ordeal (for rape). To Ed Flynn's annoyance, accounts of the two inquisitions continued to pop up side-by...