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...Hollywood's slaphappiest movies in the 1920s, '30s and '40s; of a heart attack; in Santa Monica, Calif. A onetime London music hall comic, Laurel was the brain behind the gags and the on-screen butt of them all, the watery-eyed, squeaky-voiced noodlehead who caught Jean Harlow's dress in a car door in Double Whoopee and absorbed the custard pies in The Battle of the Century, spilled the paint, upset the ladders and destroyed the autos, all of which invariably earned him a klonk over the head and a snort from Ollie: "Another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Mar. 5, 1965 | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...shrill French weeklies were completely lacking in subtlety. Says Pertinax: "Candide, Gringoire, and Je Suis Partout might just as well have been gotten out by Goebbels or Starace." They called Roosevelt a Jew and "the century's most conspicuous noodlehead," said "he wants to start a war so as to reestablish Jewish power and deliver the world to Bolshevism, " cried that "at Munich no one has been vanquished except Moscow." In prewar France, concludes Pertinax, "the worst evil wrought by Laval and the rest of them was their allowing German and Italian agents to prostitute the French press...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: The French Press | 8/28/1944 | See Source »

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