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Turtles & Towboats. The Department of Commerce Building (sometimes called "Hoover's Folly" after the ex-Secretary who laid its cornerstone four months before the 1929 crash) is a wondrously massive seven-story limestone, granite and marble pile with 3,311 rooms and 5,200 windows, covering three full city blocks. From its-vast collection of books and reports, U.S. citizens can learn how to run a pants cleaning shop or whether there is a market for hookah pipes in Nicaragua. Its archives contain patents for ornithopters (beating-wing flying machines) and a "pedal calorenticator" (a flexible rubber tube reaching...
...Kicking (music by Hal Borne, Irma Jurist & Sammy Fain; lyrics by Paul Francis Webster & Ray Golden; produced by William R. Katzell & Mr. Golden) turns bright just often enough to accentuate its general dullness. It is a mussy show; its acts don't move in procession, they merely pile up like wash. It is also a mechanical show; it behaves as though the right proportion of songs, skits and dance numbers were just as good as the right kind...
This solution to the problem is far from satisfactory. It requires an extraordinary number of papers, and fails even then to ensure that anyone can find the exam he is looking for. In addition, it creates an unsightly rubble pile. Where exam papers are concerned, the only way to keep them in order and in the library is to nail them down, chain them to the wall, or put them safely out of reach...
...with no strings attached. That was all right with Ed. "We need an anchor man on the council," he explained, "someone who can inject some thought into it." What he really needed was someone who could win the labor, Negro and university-votes of the Fifth Ward, and pile up a big majority for Kelly for mayor as well...
...much more important than timing." She wiped the lipstick under her chin and made two bull's-eyes on each cheek. "The more dead serious you are about a character, even a comic character, the more the audience will like and understand it." Brushing aside a small pile of slightly battered false eyelashes, she peered furiously into the mirror and began furiously to massage the islands of red paint into her white skin. "It has to be serious," she said fervently, "or it won't be funny...