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Last March, suddenly overwhelmed by conscience, City Councilman Sullivan dreamt up a clever way to turn his delinquency complex on the city. "The cause of delinquency," quoth he, "is the pinball machine!" Since logic is logic, his next deduction was simple. "Let's ban it!" he beamed...
Tallulah Bankhead, husky, loud-spoken actress who played the lead (1939) in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, took umbrage at Playwright Hellman's comment in Moscow: "An actor doesn't make much difference to the play" (TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright...
...Company Easy on May 1st. We now have a rough idea of what all those papers were that we signed and recopied the first day we arrived . . . at least we have seen them once again. "It wasn't like the Maypole Dance we had back in Minnesota," quoth Mervin Lysing, "Not with the size of some of those Bags I toted around...
...Ellis no fury like a Harvard guard," quoth the Sage of the Age flippantly...
...what good came of it at last?", Quoth little Peterkin...