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Best talent: Jack Gilford, who does an imitation, at once funny and narcotic, of a man trying to stay awake at a pep meeting of the "Hoard Motor Co." Typical piece of ragtime sociology: a mass strip number exposing union labels.
The great ideologues of Communism, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, who really had something to say, had said it so clumsily that old Bolsheviks liked to boast that it had taken them a lifetime to understand the third volume of Das Kapital. Comrade Lenin was somewhat too electric for diaper...
If that were all there was to the book it would be plenty, though no man could quite judge of what. But for Dionysian William Faulkner the story is, as usual, a mere set of springboards and parallel bars for the display of one of the most dazzling and inchoate...
Died. Jack Buchalter, 53, ill, impoverished, honest half brother of Racketeer Louis (Lepke) Buchalter; and his wife, Zilpah, 48, by their own hands (gas); in The Bronx. Often a spectator at Lepke's trial. Brother Jack had no connection with his narcotic or other rackets, made his living as...
While snotty-nosed Arab children stopped scuffling in the dust to gape and wonder, a disguised Egyptian policeman recently offered to buy a mangy and decrepit old camel for $40, about 20 times its apparent value. The astonished moppets' beady eyes grew even wider as the camel's...