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...STATUES ARE PUNK . . ." I'm acquainted with Gert and with Ein And a great many others named Stein But this sculptor called Ed, Is he living or dead? Or did somebody garble a line? GODFREY HOPKINS New York City A child of error and perversity, Ed Stein was a non-existent character who appeared on Earth just long enough to make TIME, Sept. 11. p. 57, a horrid sight and, but for the intervention of the Blue Eagle, to cost several proofreaders and makeup editors their jobs. The Stein whose place he usurped in the limerick is, of course...
...like the family Stein, There is Gert, there is Ed, there is Ein; Cert's poems are bunk, Ed's statues are punk, And nobody understands...
...could be kept alive by continually smoking a pipe. James Savery was ideally fitted for the part of the scarecrow in every respect except one; he was made deathly sick by smoking. The ever-resourceful technicians, never thwarted, finally evolved the scheme of filling Savery's pipe with punk. In the excitement of the performance, Savery would invariably inhale once or twice, instead of blowing at his punk. The scarecrow who had to smoke to live, almost died from smoking...
...firecrackers, sparklers, roman candles, skyrockets, aerial bombs, pinwheels, squibs, flares, torpedoes, etc. etc. in celebration of Independence Day 1930; in the good old days, a $4,000,000 Fourth of July would have been a very sad Fourth indeed. Fireworks men mourn the time when a piece of punk in the outfield of a baseball park would bring to life a fire portrait of "Theodore Roosevelt, Our President" and cause great huzzahs to shake the bleachers...
...amateur, became the subject of a typical controversy among U. S. coaches. Should he devote all his efforts to the swimming events or should he drop one event and play water polo? Said burly Coach William Bachrach of the water polo team: "Without Weissmuller the water polo team is punk; with him the team has a chance against any team, and what's the use of paying $15,000 to bring the water polo team here unless you give them a real chance for the championship!" Coach Bachrach won his point and Weissmuller was put on the water polo...