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Said Willkie: "I put this up to the President now and I hope that he does not answer with any quip about how Wendell Willkie loves property and he loves humanity. I say, without any personal criticism of the President, that it has been his good fortune at every stage in his life to possess and enjoy more wealth and more income than I have. This is as true today as it was in the past...
...distinct character: e.g., Keys (Scroll & Key) usually picks rich, convivial boys. Bones chooses campus big shots, almost invariably taps the football captain-elect, chairman of the News, chairman of the Lit. head of Dwight Hall (campus Y. M. C. A.), leader of the Glee Club, a self-supporting student. Quip-sters say that Bones always taps 13 big men, one unknown and one Armenian...
...allotment dollar for dollar. Once Director Kimball explained this process to President Nelson A. Rockefeller of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Said Mr. Rockefeller: "I see, you borrowed the money, then got the Government to double it, and then got people to give it to you." This quip rouses a loud and happy laugh from ample-chested Fiske Kimball...
Birthdays. Hoosier Humorist George Ade, his 74th; with a quip: "This birthday isn't very welcome, but I guess it can't be avoided"; George Herman ("Babe") Ruth, his 46th; ditto: "Darned if I get any fun out of birthdays...
...retreat. That male Wampas Baby Star is becoming an actor What has inspired this transformation, Heaven only knows, but "Remember?" is a darn good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film history. Mrs. Chips, alias Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres form the other two corners of the triangle with unexpected gusto. In fact the whole picture...