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...Nice pig,' said Moses Fable, who usually paid no attention to bit players and extras." The pig, Dirty Eddie, black, underprivileged, but unmistakably talented, is the hero of Ludwig Bemelmans' third whimsical novel. Moses Fable was the fleshy, flashy chief of Hollywood's Olympia Studios. Bemelmans (Hotel Splendide, I Love You, I Love You, I Love You) gets more out of a pig than Swift and Armour (they miss the whimsy as well as the squeal). Dirty Eddie becomes a $5,000-a-week movie star who earns himself swill-pails of fan mail...
Holdout. Eddie staged a two-month holdout for $5,000 a week, got it after the studio screen-tested hundreds of other pigs, found Eddie irreplaceable. But when the film was run off, Moses Fable "uttered a wild cry of pain." The screen showed a pig implausibly growing smaller as the film went on. The last part of the film had been shot first when Eddie was only half the size he achieved during his two-month strike...
...Oxford Street windows said: "We did it because the owner is a Jew." In Wales, signs appeared on a school wall reading: "Jewish murderers" and "Hitler was right." At Kingstanding, near Birmingham, hooligans stole into a Jewish cemetery, uprooted gravestones, defaced them with signs: "Hang the Jews," "Dirty Jews," "Pig," "Swine." There were other outbreaks in Cardiff, Devonport, Liverpool...
...including Pennsylvania, however. Said Republican Governor James (Big Jim) Duff as Dewey finished his western tour: "For the Republican Party to tie itself up to a single candidate for the presidency at this time . . . would be like selling the party a pig in a poke...
...acre), but has always reserved the right to tell the owners what to do with their land. He excludes Negroes, Asiatics and former "subjects of the Ottoman Empire." Once in, purchasers cannot build a house or fence, cut or plant a tree, keep a cow, pig or chicken, without the Duke's permission...