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Trembling Rich. George Smith is the unlikely name of his daydream figure. Smith is such a man as Manhattan's subway millions have dreamed of being. With nothing but a pad and pencil in Room 604 of a building in Owl Street, somewhere downtown, he makes uncounted millions, and the market shudders at his whim. Like sable-jowled Novelist Donleavy himself, he is dark, saturnine, aloof from human contact. The rich tremble before him; only a few poor whom he selects to honor know his great heart. Contemptuous of woman when lured into sex he is more potent than...
...that in 1908 a magazine sent him to Pittsburgh steel mills and West Virginia coal pits to capture the look of common laborers, immigrants like himself. He did it with the skill of Renaissance masters: character surges from every pore of sweat-stained faces, submerged in subtle eddies of pencil and charcoal. In 1909 Stella returned to Italy, where he was born, and soon met the bellicose futurists. He absorbed their lessons of the violent involvement of forms and devotion to machine-made objects. He came back to the U.S. as an acolyte of the machine esthetic...
...twisted bicycle. A flattened toy gun. A silver corkscrew. A blue-handled screwdriver. A brass hand mirror. A child's pencil case. A green alarm clock. A yellowed baby picture. A small wad of lire. A mattress. A red and black shawl. A lone playing card (the king of clubs). An ancient Olivetti typewriter. A crumpled Fiat. An electric pylon twisted off its concrete base. A church steeple protruding from the mud. Such were the scattered remains of a town called Longarone, which last week was wiped off the face of the earth...
...Idiot (May 17): "Mifume's sword trips a valve concealed beneath his opponent's kimono and opens a tank containing a gallon of vegetable oil, iron oxide, water and chocolate sauce under 40 pounds of pressure. Spfluurrroooooooooosh!" He composes his reviews on a yellow-lined pad in pencil ("Typewriters talk back at you"), leaving a wide margin for notes about his own copy. He does not feel that readers should take his review of a film as gospel; on the contrary, he merely hopes they will realize that he is writing about his own reaction conditioned...
Hairdos & Dog Hairs. Asks Lasky: "Was there ever any political leader who devoted so much time worrying about his hairdo?" He quotes Newsweek: "Kennedy carries a white manicurist's pencil to make his fingernails whiter." And Westbrook Pegler: "Kennedy looks at people through half-shut eyes. If a guy can't look me square in the eye, I don't trust him." (Almost 200 pages later, Lyndon Johnson is quoted: "I can tell a man by looking in his eyes. I looked in John Kennedy's eyes and I liked what I saw.") Lasky even quotes...