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...since King Arthur's, the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club; and when he failed to prosper, he beleaguered Heywood Broun, Harpo Marx, Herbert Bayard Swope and the rest with puns: "I fold my tens and silently steal away," or, apropos of nothing important, "One man's Mede is another man's Persian...
...calm, small, square-cut sculptor named Costantino Nivola has finished what may be the biggest single bas-relief in modern history. Darius the Mede and Nebuchadnezzar ordered bigger ones, but the ancient rulers never saw anything remotely like Nivola...
...distance covered by Athenian Courier Pheidippides in 490 B.C., when he raced from the plain of Marathon to the outskirts of Athens with news that Darius the Mede had been defeated...
...Algonquin's Round Table perished years ago, but it bequeathed Kaufman, Benchley and Dorothy Parker as the town's great wits. Kaufman has proved almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess...
...weekly "Diary of Our Own Samuel Pepys," in which most of Manhattan's artists & writers sooner or later received mention. Addicted to punning, F. P. A. credits Dramatist George S. Kaufman with one of the Conning Tower's most famed play-on-words: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian." Two average F. P. Aisms: "He (Walter Lippmann) appears to think that Roosevelt is putting the Court before the horse...