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...college coach whose team has to play Texas, Michigan State, Notre Dame, Washington and U.C.L.A. in one season had better have a sense of humor. Southern California's John McKay, 44, is quick with a quip. Ask McKay whether he thinks emotion is important in football, and he says: "My wife is emotional, but she's a very poor football player." Compliment John on the fact that his Trojans are the No. 1-ranked team in the U.S., and he shrugs...
...endured simply because he is such a fertile subject for mimicry. Comics who have played the show liken him to "a greeter at Forest Lawn cemetery," crack that "he is one of the few men who can light up a room-just by leaving it." Perhaps the most telling quip about Sullivan's secret of screen longevity came from Fred Allen: "He will last as long as someone else has talent." To Sullivan, there is no mystery. "I am," he says matter-of-factly, "the best damned showman on television...
...drinking turtles that he sold to Judge magazine in 1927 financed his marriage to fellow Oxford Student Helen Palmer, who helps him develop his story lines. His career got a big boost when his advertising cartoons for an insecticide made the caption "Quick, Henry, the Flit!" a common household quip. He was a cartoonist for the New York daily PM, created the prizewinning "Gerald McBoing-Boing" movie cartoons, and has completed a book of original songs for children...
...18th century Paris goldsmith who is so obsessed with his creations that he sells them reluctantly, then reclaims them by killing his customers. Hindemith set it to a craftsmanlike score that has strong choral writing and moments of trenchant emotion; much of the time it also justifies the quip that the hero is not Cardillac but counterpoint...
...often rightly so. Cocteau was a master of the bon mot and the telling aphorism, and these pages teem with samples. Perhaps the best is the anecdotal quip that American Composer Ned Rorem relates in his introduction. A literary monthly once posed a question to several writers: "If your house were burning down and you could take one thing, what would it be?" "I'd take the fire," answered Jean Cocteau...