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...pressagent named "Arizona John" Burke tooled the fantastic legend until no buffalo was left unskinned, no redskin unscalped and no maiden unavenged west of the Mississippi...
Miss Susie Slagle's (Paramount) is a mild, nostalgic little comedy about budding medicos, based on a fictional bestseller by Augusta Tucker. Back about 1910, so the story goes, a maiden lady named Susie Slagle kept a boardinghouse for medical students. She fed them well, jollied them along, nursed their emotional ills, let them draw giant-sized cross sections of hearts, lungs and livers on her upstairs wall. She also gave them a wan goodbye kiss when they went out into the world with their brand-new medical degrees...
Acid Upstart. Sime Silverman was fired from the old New York Morning Telegraph for panning a theatrical act that had bought an ad. He borrowed $1,500 from his father-in-law to push into the clamorous crowd of stage-door journalism. His maiden editorial in 1905 carried an acid promise: to print the news "without regard to whose name is mentioned, or the advertising columns...
Into his memoirs Author Murray has packed practically everything he knows or has ever heard. There are humorous dozens of cracker-barrel stories. There are shrewd estimates of hundreds of obscure people, cowhands, politicians, maiden aunts, Indians, legalites, buffalo hunters, dirt farmers. There is a bloated recapitulation of human knowledge (all set down as revelation), from casual botanical observations ("a three-leaf plant, like the poison Oak, is usually poisonous [but] a five-leaf plant like ... the Virginia Creeper is never poisonous") to startling historical discoveries (Egypt's "pyramids were constructed in order to satisfy groups and blocks...
Fighting Mood. All the Scotch in the world would not wash away the probability that UNO was heading into a rough maiden voyage. The original intention was to confine the first meeting to first matters like establishing the Security Council and electing a Secretary-General. But the world was too full of controversy to keep the agenda antiseptic...