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...Despite many ration-free meats last week, Manhattan's Harvard and Union Clubs were accused by their butchers of being investigated by OPA. If guilty both faced a meatless, pointless New Year...
Germans, wondering whatever has become of Adolf Hitler, were startled by an apparently pointless but planted paragraph in Hitler's Völkischer Beobachter. Headed The Man of Genius, it said...
...seems somewhat moongruous, however, that several needless ballet and glee club numbers are mixed in with the hilarious clowning. Among the least enjoyable of those are several pointless pieces by Fred Waring's glee club and numerous ineffective ballerinas...
...House. Months before, Edwards had asked his studio audience a pointless query: "Is there a Mr. Wickel in the house?" The M.C. liked his little joke, repeated it, and in time it became a standard gag line. Then, on November 4, there was a Mr. Wickel in the house: listeners heard a meek response from a Verona, N.J. mechanical engineer named Rudolph J. Wickel. Edwards, rising to the occasion, promptly announced that $1,000 awaited Mr. Wickel's shovel in the Holyoke lot. Mr. Wickel joined the gold rush, but failed to find the money...
...great vaudevillians and conceivably the greatest master of ceremonies of his day, Fay shows not a trace of breeziness, brassiness or smut. His manner is almost prim, his delivery slow, his material largely pointless. For one drawled gag like "Had a date with a newspaperwoman the other night-yes, she keeps a stand," there are a dozen droll nothings that are triumphs of timing and intonation...