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...writes: "The bags under his eyes come to look like fugitives from a hammock factory," the sentence is pencil-ringed and Funnyman Allen retorts in the margin: "Come now. My bags aren't that big. My eyes just look as though they are peeping over two dirty ping-pong balls." When Zolotow reports: "Allen got his first break when he played the lead in Polly, a 1928 musical," Allen corrects him testily: "In 1921 I toured with Nora Bayes and Lew Fields. In 1922 I played in The Passing Show at the Winter Garden...
...last PBH freshman reception in March, dancing, ping pong, and pool were on the program. Then, 60-odd Harvard freshmen were introduced to the 16 March entrants at Radcliffe...
Brewster employes dramatically forced an answer. At the urging of their union (C.I.O. United Auto Workers), all but 200 of the day shift stayed at work, even after the night shift came on. Since there was too little work for two crews, some workers played ping-pong and shuffleboard, danced to the music of piano, brass and drum. The union sent in enough sandwiches, pies, doughnuts, coffee and soda pop for a five-day siege. Some of the stay-ins crowded out on the balconies, hanging signs: "We've Got the Tools. We've got the Ability...
Eddie Cantor's ping-pong eyes and small potato voice have abetted many a vulgar nudge and giggle, but nobody ever thought of suppressing him as a menace to public morals. Nevertheless, last week that is just what happened to him. NBC cut Eddie Cantor off the air, in the middle of his act. In Manhattan he and Singer Nora Martin were telecasting an old tune, We're Having a Baby, My Baby and Me, which Cantor sang in the 1941-42 Broadway musical, Banjo Eyes. NBC found some of the lyrics and some of the comedian...
...tried by German Exile Dr. Eric Fels (now in Buenos Aires) on three women far gone with breast cancer. The hormone improved all three cancer patients. One bedridden woman with a cancer that had spread to her bones was able to get up out of bed, now plays ping-pong every day. There is some recalcification of the thin spots in her bones. She still harbors cancer cells, but healthy fibrous tissue is growing among them...