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...gorilla adventure-and worse-is logical enough in a universe "shaped exactly like a pint of beer, in which the nebulae were the ascending bubbles." This was the astronomical discovery of another young man "who was invariably spurned by the girls, not because he smelt at all bad, but because he happened to be as ugly as a monkey." Such Collier characters naturally gravitate into the company of demons, nymphs and other undesirable elements. They have only to approach a secondhand shop, zoo, greenhouse or midnight bridge when the fictitious rational world dissolves and Author Collier is at home among...
...amours of these two are accompanied by all the dancing anyone could want and at least three more great Richard Rodgers tunes: I Could Write a Book (sweet), Love Is My Friend (torchy), Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered (catchy). Cigar-chewing Lyricist Lorenz Hart, the pint-sized genius with a two-quart capacity, abets the spirit of the occasion with leerics about zippers, canopied beds, secret telephones, mirrored ceilings, iniquity, chambermaids who are deaf, dumb & blind. Brazen little June Havoc, sister of Burlesqueen Gypsy Rose Lee, does a sidesplitting parody of all kinds of cafe singing and yields nothing...
William S. Knudsen is grey-haired, bulky, ruddy. Walter Philip Reuther is rufous, pint-sized, pale. Messrs. Knudsen and Reuther first knocked their heads together when one worked for General Motors, the other for the C. I. O. autoworkers' union. Frazzled after a tough bout with a union committee in Detroit, G. M.'s Knudsen once glared at Walter Reuther, barked...
Eager vendors on the show have offered Bartlett sets of false teeth, even sold heads of hair for $45. Shearing of the hair-seller was done by a lady barber on a holiday who got $5 for her efforts. One young man brashly agreed to take $2 for every pint of milk he could wring from a cow named Lucky that Bartlett brought to the studio. At show's end, he had made just $2. Other You Sell Me chores are blowing up large balloons till they break, trying to kick oneself in the pants. To protect his show...
Last month H. H. Lady Sylvia, the 56-year-old white Ranee of Sarawak, arriving in Canada, appalled her native Britain by denouncing its child evacuees as "young riffraff of England." Last week she appeared at Manhattan's Presbyterian Hospital, gave a pint of her blue blood to Britain, did not stipulate any particular donee...