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...didn't know which eight bars they were gong to cut. Why don't somebody tell me these things around here? Holy--I'm going off my nut." And you'd be surprised how funny an ordinary cussword can sound with a string section background. Unfortunately this gem of Papa Bing's can be heard only on dubbings from the original master. I was fortunate enough to get one. Line forms to the right...
Anxious not to capitalize on his son's reputation, Papa Hiler treated his late entrance into the art world with good-natured deprecation. Said he: "There is no message in my pictures. . . . No one ever taught me anything about painting. I never had any intention of becoming an artist." But Son Hilaire was bursting with filial pride. "I know enough about painting," said he, "to know he doesn't know a damn thing about it. If I gave him a single lesson he would be terrible. He's one of the few real primitives. I know...
...Goldberg, took the stand. Mr. Goldberg testified that his 13½-year-old son Richard returned from a camp last summer full of Communist ideas. The boy's camp counselor was a City College biology tutor. When the tutor recently invited Richard to see Fantasia with him, Papa said "No." The boy sulked. But last week Richard announced sunnily: "Daddy, you are right. I see Mr. Weisman's name in the paper. He's a Communist." Replied Mr. Goldberg: "Daddy's always right...
...manufacturing cost only 35? a thousand (from around $5)-not enough to throw them out of price competition* with the popular brands. Young Mr. Riggio figured right. The first year (1939) his Regent brand, with outlets only in New York and New England, sold 200,000,000 cigarets. Papa Riggio smiled...
...Papa Riggio's boss, American Tobacco's fabulous President George Washington Hill, smiled too. Ever since the famed Cremo anti-spit campaign had failed to turn the ebbing tide of the cigar business, his cigarmaking subsidiary, American Cigarette and Cigar Co., had been a headache. The Pall Mall cigaret, which A. C. & C. had put out in a 15? Americanized version in 1936, fizzled despite a costly advertising campaign. So Hill borrowed Frank Rig gio's idea. He lengthened Pall Mall to King size, kept Young & Rubicam, whom he had hired in 1938, to do the advertising...