Word: kazoo
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...Kazoo" finals it came in handy against Southpaw Bernard ("Tut") Bartzen, runner-up to Falkenburg last year. Tut learned to play the game by going up against a bangboard daily in the little Texas town of San Angelo, where competition was nonexistent, so he was used to seeing his best efforts returned. Flam's disconcerting returns earned him the title...
Buzz tone strictly kazoo, says Dick Stabile...
People who never bought an original picture in their lives now throng a Manhattan gallery called the Hall of Art, buy some $2,000 worth of canvases a day. They are there because of an ex-druggist, ex-suntan-oil and alarm-clock promoter, ex-salesman of the kazoo-bazooka and the megazoo. The idea man is a 45-year-old, roly-poly, Russian-born go-getter named Max Pochapin...
Archie is a lean, mischievous, battered six-footer named Ed Gardner, who declares : "Your true New York mug doesn't say toity-toid or erl. He's about halfway between oyster and erster." Gardner's in dignities are delivered with a kazoo-voiced good nature which keeps everybody happy, including his victims. Three writers turn out the original script, but the final version is practically all Gardner ("The boys do a rough draft and I tear it down"). The result is grade-A American foolery...
Durable Spencer Tracy (Father Flanagan) splashes through this pail of tears with an undampened performance. Kazoo-voiced Mickey Rooney (the mayor) very nearly drowns. The paying customers, unfortunately, are not provided with rain checks...