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...there is one parodist who seldom needs to wield this club over a self-anesthetized audience. Ira Wallach, who proved his wit in his "Hopalong Freud" series, has a new book, called "Gutenberg's Folly...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Hacks of Hackney | 4/29/1954 | See Source »

Green Thumbs. This is the man, no intellectual, without a touch of the ideologue or politician-whose life as thus recorded is almost a parodist's composite of the old-fashioned business-magazine success stories-who finally made the war-production machine in Washington work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: One War Won | 12/13/1943 | See Source »

...malicious, more successful. Wrote Justice Holmes (see .p. 84) to Sir Frederick Pollock: "[It] made me laugh consumedly. . . . The writer['s] ... indecency . . . must have escaped the editors." Critic Wilson's subject: book reviewers ("What a wonderful is liquorary quiddicism! What fastiddily! . . . What unreproachable stammards and crytea-ria!"). Parodist Wilson's chief victims are "Liberary clinics Carl von Doorman, Herbert S. Goren, Gorman B. Munson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rejoycings | 1/4/1943 | See Source »

Married. Alec Andrews Templeton, 30, blind, British-born pianist and deft musical parodist (Bach Goes to Town, The Shortest Wagnerian Opera}; and onetime Singer Juliette Vaiani, 39; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 2, 1940 | 9/2/1940 | See Source »

...lover of Heine, an inveterate parodist and would-be musician, Untermeyer contributed second rate verse and lofty reviews to The Masses, The Seven Arts and The Liberator, only one of the three to survive the War. As superintendent of a jewelry factory in Newark, N. J., Business man Untermeyer invited his 150 astonished employes to unionize, claims he established the first 44-hour week in the industry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Poets & Untermeyer | 10/23/1939 | See Source »

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