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...public had wearied of yellow journalism, and the comics calmed down. There was less jaw breaking, more jawing, though the humor was still basic. Mutt, originally a horseplayer, was soon joined by Jeff, and the pair still quietly swindle each other today. Abie the Agent, an ethnic comic character, often cracked jokes in Yiddish and was not above haranguing a waiter: "It ain't the principle either; it's the ten cents." In Bringing Up Father, Irish-born Jiggs plans desperate stratagems to escape his starched collar and shrewish wife for the solid comforts of Dinty Moore...
Chiofaro teams up with 145-pound Jerry Delaney to form an effective Mutt and Jeff combine for the second defense. Demment drops back to fill in at times...
This year, however, the Mutt-and-Jeff combination that holds down the top two posts on the squad has been reversed, with 140-pound Jim Campen moving into the top position ahead of long-hitting captain Stan Abrams...
...brunette named Sonja Ziemann, turns out to be a woman with a cloudy past. And before long there are intimations that poor old Cooper is also being victimized by an oil swindle. The bowler-hatted Terry-Thomas and Cooper's gangling American business partner (Alex Nicol) team up,_ Mutt-and-Jeff fashion, to pursue the viruses and the villains. This includes such high jinks as Terry-Thomas' impersonating a hearse driver and tooling off madly with the coffin of a Moslem diplomat, and a terribly dignified monkey who impersonates live diplomats. The distinctly chilly climax occurs...
...their increasing versatility, machines lack a vital quality that even the lowliest mutt possesses: they cannot understand their master's voice. This situation may soon change. Last week International Business Machines Corp. demonstrated a small, innocent-looking gadget that may some day permit machines to follow spoken orders, and even eavesdrop on human conversations...