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...impeccably impartial. He was simply a scold in spats. "We are living in the Age of the Jerk," he wrote in one of his last pieces. "The manifestations of Jerkism are all over the place and limited to no class or race. It is Jerkism when Negro hoodlums loot a shoe store. It is Jerkism when Ivy League types commit vandalism at a debutante party, and Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle's cap. It is Jerkism to lie down on the floor of the White House...
...George Bernard Shaw. That is what his daughter is doing, and she has already fallen in love with a chauffeur. Depravity surrounds Ford. The clerk of his sporting-goods concern has lifted half a million dollars from the firm, and makes a scoundrelly proposition. He will abscond with the loot unless Ford gives him his daughter's hand and a general managership. The swag is in two matching bags. When a third identical bag containing the downstairs maid's lingerie is shuffled on to the scene, the plot boils over in mistaken identities and furious bag snatching...
Died. Berton Braley, 83, self-styled Manhattan "versifier" who unabashedly wrote for loot, not laurels, over the years turned out something like 11,000 items, ranging from light verse for magazines to Burma-Shave jingles, and once (1913) even covered the World Series in verse for United Press; of cancer; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Braley insisted that he worked over the lowliest limerick "as though I were trying to write an epic," and, indeed, some were epics of their kind...
...pity; A Vision of Battlements is anything but that. It is a high-spirited cadenza amid the brassy cacophony of war, played by a born verbal musician. Among the fictional souvenirs of World War II, mostly heavy, khaki-colored, lugubrious and dull, this is a glittering bit of Faberge loot-a bauble to defeat boredom. It also marks the first creation, though not publication (which was delayed 16 years), of the anti-hero in postwar fiction, the first of the Lucky Jims...
...botched his job is entitled to a new trial (1963), to ring new safeguards around the use of co-defendant confessions at joint trials (1965), and to defy the odd Supreme Court rule that police may not seize "mere" evidence, such as incriminating letters, unless it is also the loot or tools of a crime, or the means of escape...