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...Sink or Swim, Adolf Hitler's My Battle. Those U. S. readers who recall Author West's little-noticed satire, Miss Lonelyhearts* will expect something pretty funny as the upshot of this medley and they will not be disappointed. A Cool Million, of the Dismantling of Lemuel Pitkin is really a U. S.-imitation Candide. Though Author West's satire lacks the bite of Voltaire's, it is sharp enough to take the hide off more than one victim...
...Lemuel Pitkin, whose story begins in typical Alger surroundings, with a widowed mother, a mortgaged New England house and a villainous lawyer, quickly passes on to breezier events. Encouraged by his friend, "Shagpoke" Whipple, a smalltown banker, to seek his fortune in the big city, Lemuel sets out for Manhattan, falls victim to a confidence man. and is jailed by mistake. Here his dismantling begins: all his teeth are pulled out by order of the kindly warden. Lemuel is surprised to meet his friend Shagpoke in prison. To Lem's commiseration the bankster replies: "I am an American businessman...
...last week planned 58 features. Like other companies, Fox will depend more on adaptations than original stories: Sinclair Lewis' Work of Art, Robert Nathan's One More Spring, Stallings' The First World War, Pitkin's Life Begins at Forty. Owning 45% pf British Gaumont, Fox last year distributed four British Gaumont pictures in the U. S. Because they were poorly received there will be no British pictures on the Fox schedule this year...
...they added medical service complete. ... At the end of 1969, an agreement was reached whereby the asylums of the country filled all political offices with harmless nuts suffering from delusions of grandeur. . . . On July 4. 1981, the last flyswatter on earth was publicly burned.-Journalist Walter B. Pitkin (Life Begins at Forty, More Power to You). ¶ Within ten years fruit from California or Turkestan will be served in London with all the freshness and taste of freshly gathered fruit by suspended animation of both enzymes and micro-organisms.- Researcher Charles S. Ash of California Packing Corp. Tartly...
Added Columbia's loud Professor Walter Boughton Pitkin, historian of Stupidity (TIME, April 4), co-summarizer: "The best thing which the richest, most influential and most ambitious graduates of American colleges during the past 40 years have been able to achieve is to send 127,000,000 people into bankruptcy and mess up all of North America...