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...whole of the Rev. Paul Austin Wolfe's argument in his article for Presbyterians titled You Are a Catholic [TIME, Nov. 2] is an elaborate and unworthy pun. It is, moreover, a pun on a single letter, for while the Presbyterian Church may well be a catholic church, as he contends, it is most certainly not, and will never be, a Catholic Church. He affirms that there has been "persistent propaganda to apply the word Catholic to the Roman Church alone." That also is false, for it has never been necessary . . . The Western world has always called the Church...
...Highness told us he eats only one meal a day-at lunchtime." On a recent Pillsbury Mills press junket, Buchwald quipped that the president of the company was greeted in Paris with: "We knew you were coming so we baked a cake." Buchwald, an unblushing user of the multiple pun, described the event: "The well-bread Ritz Hotel . . . was decked out like a wedding cake . . . Pillsbury spared no expense to see that there were flours on every table, whether they kneaded them...
Unfortunately the film fails, like most of its predecessors, to exploit Jerry's unusual gift for "gallows laughter," the rich, traditional Jewish humor of the schlemiel* which he is sacrificing for the easy money in pun and jargon and in the barefaced leer...
...stop this bickering, a cooperative film management plan has been suggested. Directed by a board made up of representatives of all film-showing organizations, it would show all movies and split the profits between the groups. But, to make a bad pun, this seems like putting the cartel before the horse. Any piece of new machinery will fall apart as long as a spirit of cooperation between the components is not present. And if this sprits can come about, such a directorate is not necessary. Unless each group, then, realizes that the excesses of competition will end the opportunity...
Along with economic crisis, government corruption has spread. A fortnight ago, while lecturing army brass on the "meat problem," Perón got a frank assessment of how his prestige has slipped. Looking El Lider square in the eye, one of the assembled colonels made a mordant pun: "The problem, my general, is not only of the flesh but also of the spirit...