Word: perelman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Perelman is one of the craziest foxes and dreamiest departments and funniest men on three wheels. Some people don't realize how long ago he started pounding off the drivel on the 47-key machine, but Boston's favorite underground theatre, the Laffmovie, has come up with the evidence. Make that gruesome evidence...
...Mate John Bradley - rode through the rain to inspire the cheering citizens of Boston. In Tampa, a 75-mm. cannon boomed hourly from Plant Park. In Indianapolis, Mayor Robert Tyndall gave "the order of the day": Over the top. Indianapolis. Cheyenne County, Wyo. held "pie socials." Funnyman S. J. Perelman and Author John Roy (Under Cover) Carlson exhorted the people of Pittsburgh. Troops simulated airborne attacks on Chicago. In The Bronx, bond-buyers were allowed to ring a replica of the Liberty Bell. In Manhattan, buyers were permitted to eat their way through a five-layer, six-foot-high cake...
Crazy Like a Fox includes 46 of the fey five-finger exercises with which Humorist Perelman has since tickled the funny bones and ribs of readers of the New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post and other magazines. This crowded showcase displays Perelman's talents as a gagman at their best. But it also reveals the monotony of his formula, which to some readers is as enervating, in its way, as the late Harold Bell Wright...
...Funnyman Perelman finds endless inspiration in the vagaries of U.S. advertising. In Tomorrow-Fairly Cloudy he exhorts: "Remember that . . . 500 empty tobacco tins . . . and a 50-word essay on 'Early Kentish Brass Rubbings' entitle you to the Pocahontas Mixture vacation offer, whereby you retire at sixty with most of your faculties impaired." He tells how a Mr. Bradley was drowned in his cellar with his wife and family ("I should have specified Sumwenco Super-Annealed Brass Pipe throughout [but] at least . . . under the Central American Mutual Perpetual Amortizational Group Insurance Plan our loved ones need not be reduced...
John Dewey Rides Again-One Christmas, Humorist Perelman decided to trim a Christmas tree. Advised Mademoiselle: "Dip tips of twisted cotton strips into India ink." Author Perelman went to work muttering: "Tip dips of twisted crotton sips. . . . Sip dips of cristed totton tips." Finally he surrendered to House & Garden's "inspiration of the season-an upside-down-evergreen tree swung from the ceiling...