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Sole qualification for membership: a pub customer must allow the end of his tie to be chewed...
...brought him a chance (as amusement editor) to go on-if not up-from there. For a time, with impish delight, he walked the tight wire between good fun and bad taste. On his pub-crawling beat, sipping an occasional dark-rum Daiquiri, he ogled the rhinestone in a stripteaser's navel, tattled on the Duchess of Windsor's powder-room behavior (she left the maid...
...oldest, sanest order in the Western world was changing. Britons who had voted for the change realized that it was upon them when last week they pondered a pub-shaking fact: they had a Five-Year Plan...
...appeal. Like Fred Allen, Jack Benny and Bob Hope, Handley has a stock set of characters who repeat nonsense lines which English listeners love to wrap into their own conversation at apt moments. A visitor to England would probably need to know ITMA to understand ordinary street, pub and Army humor. Examples...
...Very Amusing Sirs: Nothing has given me greater satisfaction than to read your report on the Chicago pub lic school system [TIME, May 28]. . . . Not until I escaped [from it ] did I realize just what I had not received...