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...like a shining diamond. Traubel's voice is like a beautiful ruby." He adds: "Traubel is one of the greatest darlings I have ever been working with. In the last 20 years I have killed at least 24 Isoldes. Helen is the most agreeable. She is the nicest of them all. Flagstad was not so easy. She got a little swollen with success. Helen will always have both feet on the ground. She will never start...
...Parliament, when not crusading for something, he crusades against crusaders. At his naughtiest, he has driven verbal splinters under Lady Astor's fingernails,-or lit dialectical firecrackers under the earnest Left. At his nicest, he has tilted at sesquipedalian government reports (his parody: "It has been aquating hard. I am now going to dehydrate my socks"). At his sanest, he helped win the first marked mitigation of Britain's stringent divorce laws since...
...Arch Oboler, the nicest thing about winning a prize is making the acceptance speech. In his twelve years of radio writing, he has done plenty of both. But unlike his writing (Alter Ego, Free World Theater, etc.), Oboler's speeches seldom please radio. In Oklahoma City, in a talk he titled "Bughum" ("humbug, backwards"), Arch paid his respects to radio...
...Eternal Footman is always there to hold his hat and snicker: "The servant gave me my coat and hat, and in a glow of self-satisfaction I walked out into the night. 'A delightful evening,' I reflected, 'the nicest kind of people. What I said about finance and philosophy impressed them; and how they laughed when I imitated a pig squealing...
...subscribers, I certainly do want to join you in every good wish to Jim Linen in his new job. I also want to extend congratulations to TIME for regaining the services of one of the ablest men I have ever known-and one of the nicest...