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...their creator an estimated $60,000 a year. He bought an 18-room house, built along the lines of a moderate-sized hotel, on St. Louis' private, exclusive Portland Place, where he still lives. For a time, the Bungles formula seemed surefire: there was a good deal of POW, SOCK and WHAM to liven the adventures of shrewish Josephine and gullible George, whose chief vice was signing papers before he read them. But the Bungles' incessant quarreling, which would have exhausted any real life couple, eventually got too painful for the readers. The strip's newspaper clients...
Minus Goodenough was the star for the Crimeds, and his high-flying pow! in the second half of the first set the pace for the conquering juggernaut. Umpire Thomas O'Kearney -Lamont, Lampoon appointee, stared oggle-eyed as the runners trotted around the bases...
Houlton was no isolated case. All German POW camps in the U.S. have collected Russians. The only thing camp officials could do was what they were doing: hang onto the Russians and leave it to the State Department to unravel the tangle of international relations...
...Frank Walker that Jimmy Byrnes was not acceptable to P.A.C. Reasons: 1) he is a confirmed Southerner; 2) as OWMobilizer, he has held wages down. Hillman and Murray then went a good deal farther. No Southerner, they said, would get P.A.C. backing. Jimmy Byrnes gracefully withdrew. P.A.C.'s pow er blossomed fabulously...
...leftish German author of the pow erful novels, Power, The Ugly Duchess, Success, has written a leftish French novel which was inspired by Joan of Arc in somewhat the same way that Franz Werfel's Song of Bernadette was inspired by the Virgin of Lourdes. But Feuchtwanger's inspiration is less successful...