Word: laughers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Personal Traits. Bespectacled, with a toothy mouth and a boxlike jaw, he looks more like a college professor than a politician. Unlike his father, who was a hearty laugher, he has a quiet humor and a sudden wide grin. Careless of his dress, he likes what his family calls "all-purpose" pants-he sometimes wears the same pair to the Senate, to the golf links, and to dinner. In private, he is a genial and pleasant conversational ist; on the Senate floor he is all business-cold, aggressive, persistent...
...military logic does not always prevail, and Litvinoff has needed all his diplomatic skill, his shrewdness, his hard common sense. A great belly laugher with ideal physical equipment -he stands 5 ft. 3 and weighs 200 lb. -he gets along fabulously well with laugh-loving Franklin Roosevelt. He works well with Harry Hopkins. Vice President Henry Wallace, Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgenthau, Justice Felix Frankfurter, Lend-Leaser Major General James H. Burns...
...Topper Returns," Hal Roach's third venture into ectoplasmic comedy, blends murder and laugher into a mixture which falls only inches short of a Bob Hope rib-tickling, spine-tingling cocktail. Bovine-bosomed Joan Blondell as the lady who vanishes and Roland Young as Cosmo Topper, the defective detective, pace an excellent cast which includes Rochester, Carole Landis, and Billie Burke. Much above the average little girl who isn't there type of picture, this is if anything better than Topper's first two appearances...