Word: joking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From that desk-sergeant's point of view, the CRIMSON coverage of Cambridge police activities is the best joke since Gutenberg. To those whose cars have been tagged, ticketed, or towed in the past two months, your parking tips are the saddest transportation event since brachiation went out. W.E.R. LaFarge...
Such captions would look long-winded in today's New Yorker, but they were standard for its first jokes in 1925. Then Editor Harold Ross learned to trim the words and let the picture do its share. His one-line caption cartoons have set the style of U.S. humor in the last two decades. This week, in The New Yorker Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Album, the magazine took a lingering backward glance at the fun it has had with the nation's manners & morals, from the speakeasy era to the atomic age. It also sketches the line U.S. humor...
Probably the best of the longer prose works is Douglas Bunce's tale of Joseph Catchpenny, who picked his wives according to the rigid rules of romantic fiction. Bunce strikes a nice balance between slapstick and satire to keep his story amusing to the end. "Mrs. Fabian's Little Joke," by Michael Arlen, applies a ridiculous ending to an inane plot, and remains humorous in spite of it all. But a short piece on "Answers to the World's Most Famous Letters" falls down badly at the end. The purposely uninformed commentaries by Thomas Edwards, on quantum mechanics and chess...
...does what he can to be agreeable. At the diplomatic reception at San Francisco's Palace Hotel last week, the Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister's small talk consisted largely of terse platitudes on the weather, a grunted "no comment" in answer to searching questions, and an occasional joke, filed away during his earlier visits to the U.S. One of his favorites...
Next to Joe Miller's joke book, the best source of inspiration for TV entertainers has long been parlor games. Many of these excursions into musical chairs and charades have deservedly died off. Of those that remain, What's My Line? (Sun. 10:30 p.m., CBS-TV), piloted by an amiable newsman named John Daly, is one of the very few to win an audience rating up with TV's top ten shows...