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...Woollcott called Herman Mankiewicz the funniest man in New York, a town that then included Robert Benchley, George S. Kaufman, Dorothy Parker and other luminaries of the Algonquin Round Table. As a screenwriter in the Hollywood of the '30s and '40s, "Mank" continued to shoot from the quip. Dining at the home of a pretentious gourmet, he suddenly rushed to the bathroom. "Don't worry," he assured his host later, "the white wine came up with the fish." When movie attendance dropped, he offered a unique solution: "Show the movies in the streets, and drive the people...
...Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher who put together another secret meeting, this time on the Sunday before the vote. Both sides met again in Church's obscure but comfortable private room off a corridor in the Capitol. Lewis arrived with an aide and a quip: "I go to Church on Sunday, like every good Christian." But in a two-hour showdown, the talk turned serious as the ambassador, Rogers and the Senators struggled to compose a reservation acceptable to all parties. Byrd crouched on his knees, honing a draft over a coffee table. Lewis chomped on ice cubes...
There is now a bar in place of the famed Round Table where Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley and other wits from The New Yorker used to dine and quip during the '20s. But that seemed to suit the crowd just fine at last week's 75th birthday party for the Algonquin Hotel. The clubby bastion of New York literati was the site of a noisy celebration for 200 guests including Humorist S.J. Perelman, Actors Kevin McCarthy and Maureen Stapleton and Cartoonist Charles Addams. "You better feel witty before you enter the place; if not, just listen," cautioned Author...
...fast. To enlist across-the-border support, he joined forces with two Canadian companies and christened his project Alcan. McMillian proved unabashedly opportunistic. When he heard, for example, that influential congressional staffers favored a route south from Prudhoe to Fairbanks, he seized on it. His approach inspired a Washington quip: "McMillian would ship the gas south in cellophane bags if we asked...
...again. This time the pie was apple crumb and the victim was New York City Mayor Abe Beame, who was participating in a mayoral forum at Manhattan's Cooper Union. Fortunately for Beame, the pie merely splattered his blue suit. The mayor shrugged off the caper with a quip: "I like the Big Apple, not apple...