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Money doesn't worry Louis any more than his taste in music. He leaves all that to his manager and friend-a man Louis, with a kind of plantation politeness, still calls "Mister" Glaser. Joe Glaser, a tough, smart ex-fight manager, pays Louis' income tax, looks after his insurance, protects him from lawsuits and handles all the financial details of the band, including payment of the other men. Louis has never read his contract, never questioned Glaser's plans for him. Glaser says: "I'm Louis and Louis is me. There's nothing...
With this flamboyant formula, plus a dash of socialism, roly-poly little Editor Harry Guy ("Mister Bart") Bartholomew of the Mirror had outdistanced the equally flamboyant Express. For years the world's biggest daily, the Express had added Dick Tracy and a letters column. But it had picked up only 130,000 readers, dropping to second place, with a January average...
...County, Ga. as her husband Robert ("Big Duck") Mallard had been before he was lynched. The lynching had caused a lot of trouble and almost everyone thought that was Amy's fault. Big Duck had been a "real uppity nigger"-some said he even wanted to be called mister-and most of Toombs County thought he'd gotten just what he deserved...
Questions I would like answered: 1) Will Phoenix have as much respect for "Mister" McLoughlin as it did for "Father" McLoughlin? 2) Will St. Monica's Hospital (which sounds Catholic enough) favor the idea of having an "ex-priest" on its board of directors...
...Hearing for Henry. A teetotaler who bars liquor ads (but not beer ads) from his paper, Mister J.N. is a tolerant man. When Henry Wallace came to town during his campaign, Heiskell gave him free time on the Gazette's radio station to make sure that he got a fair hearing. (It was Wallace's own fault that his interview with Executive Editor Harry Ashmore made damning reading in next day's Gazette...