Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Will Hays, 66, was confused with an Encino, Calif, neighbor named Will Hays, who died. Ex-Cinema Czar Hays, alive & well, modified only slightly the standard denial. Said he: "The rumor of my death is just as exaggerated as was the remark that Mark Twain made famous...
...shakeup in the Paris police over I'affaire Mufti, and Britain's Foreign Minister Ernest Bevin was sufficiently disturbed by it to order an investigation of his intelligence service. Mr. Bevin was already disturbed by a howl of anger from the U.S. which followed a remark of his at Bournemouth: that the U.S. wanted the 100,000 Jews in Palestine "because they did not want too many of them in New York...
...when the Kiev massacres drove him from Russia (with his wife and six children), he found that fame had preceded him. When he reached New York, even Mark Twain came calling. Twain's opening remark: "I've been anxious to meet you for a long time, because people have been telling me I'm the American Sholom Aleichem...
...another Messersmith remark, see PEOPLE...
...enjoyable character, frenziedly dulled his stomach ulcers with benzedrine, double-Scotches, expensive prostitutes, and psychiatrists. "My psychiatrist tells me I'm a sex-maniac," he told Vic sadly; "but I told him that I doubted if bulls and rabbits had Oedipus complexes." Vic Norman was puzzled by this remark: "I must have missed a line," he said. "No, I [missed] two consultations," said Partner...