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...said the country's gagwriters, but a serious vote for the "ten top laugh provokers of the year." Among the winners: Vice President Alben W. Berkley (public life); Jimmy Durante (TV); Ethel (Call Me Madam) Merman (stage); S. J. (Swiss Family Perelman) Perelman (literature); and, in the field of business, bumptious Manhattan Saloonkeeper Bernard ("Toots") Shor...
...this bit of wisdom, the reader has to swallow the whole Shulman shovelful of old wheezes, soggy puns, strained parodies and cheap leers at the female form, a mixture that might be the waste from S. J. Perelman's basket. Sample: "I was going down to Florida anyhow," hums the rich girl. "There's some alligators down there making...
...article, "The Sisters of Abigail Adams," Sister Bellamy's cheesecake is undoubtedly a potent example of the omnipotent female bludgeon of sex ; but for a more apt manifestation of "the most invincible feminine weapon of all," TIME should turn to the Ogden Nash and S. J. Perelman version of Venus, who -. . . found herself a goddess...
Times and prices have changed since the twenties, but the Secretary, Sid Perelman, goes on recording with the same sharp pencil. Listen to the Mocking Bird is the latest collection of his bits and skits in The New Yorker...
Fortified by his experience with the debating society, Sid Perelman has become a kind of secretary of society in general-the kind who doodles in the minutes book, makes faces at the principal speaker, and sneaks out in the middle of the meeting. Of late years, Perelman has done little more than sift the ashes of his satire (at considerably more than 30? an hour). Listen to the Mocking Bird contains a heap of clinkers, but enough live coals (Mortar and Pestle, and some book reviews) to keep Perelmaniacs hopping...