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Readers of The New Yorker, where these mordant bits of whimsy first appeared, know Artist Charles Addams as a tireless illustrator of the now commonplace question: Is the world going insane? (see cut). He cares not who makes a civilization's laws so long as he can draw its neuroses. Last week Artist Addams' screwy drawings were collected for the first time in book form (Drawn and Quartered; Random House...
...Willkie-ish liberal, "Olive," as she is called in South Dakota, measures 5 ft. 10 in stocking feet, weighs a solid 193 lb., wears a size eleven shoe and seems, they say, "even larger than she is." With a peaches-&-cream complexion, a talent for mordant remarks, and a zest for riding the biggest horses available, Olive takes both conservatism and a thirst for reform from her Norse Lutheran heritage. Olive's attack on Bushfield is double-barreled. She pounds away with stories of past investigations of State G.O.P. funds, hammers at a current trial of three of Bushfield...
Dewey. For months political wiseacres have poohed the rapid rise of New York's Thomas E. Dewey. Winks went around: "He looks good now, but wait till the experts work out on him." Last week two experts got to work on young Mr. Dewey. In the New Yorker, mordant Wolcott Gibbs, who believes in mixing plenty of gall with his ink, profiled Mr. Dewey enthusiastically in an article that read like a long, catlike scratch. Mr. Gibbs on Mr. Dewey...
...rich documentary fruitcake of Our Times.) Since Yesterday, however, is published after America in Midpassage by Charles and Mary Beard (TIME, May 22) and is in almost every way a slighter job. Yet Mr. Allen, although he has neither the historical grasp nor the mordant style of the Beards, has the advantage of doing his job in 346 pages to the Beards' 949. His story embraces neatly the scary and screwy decade from Sept. 3, 1929 to Sept...
Although M. G. M. added such embellishments as a misplaced fashion show to the Clare Boothe play that ran 19 months on Broadway in 1936-38,* The Women, like its original, is a mordant, mature description of the social decay of one corner of the U. S. middle classes. Prevented by the nature of the cast from publicizing the picture with a studio romance, M. G. M. pressagents did not discourage the assumption of fan writers that its trio of temperamental stars were engaged in a studio feud. This device worked well recently for Warners', when George Raft...