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...About your Essay on humor [March 4]: You were right to include among the alltime big ones Jack Benny's reply to the robber who demanded his money or life. When I mentioned this old radio classic to Benny recently, he said: "That was our longest laugh. But the one I like best was on our TV show. My trousers were draped on a rack, and when a delivery boy came in, Rochester got a quarter out of my pocket and tipped the boy. Then I came in, hefted my trousers once, and said, 'Rochester, who took...
...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...alone, we're going to support South Viet Nam. If they do leave it alone, peace can come very fast. It's not for me to say what the Communists get out of it. We don't accept the view that the burglar or the robber is entitled to something just because he makes the effort. When they have reached the point where they have decided that [victory in the south] is not a result they can achieve, then perhaps there can be peace in the area...
...ROBBED THE ROBBER BARONS, by Andy Logan. The shoddy story of Colonel William d'Alton Mann, a courtly Manhattan publisher who looked like Santa Claus but carried a sackful of hush money, is told with skill and glee in this brisk biography...
...most notorious blackmailer. He was also a Civil War hero, a talented inventor and a bon vivant. Nearly forgotten since his death in 1920, he re-emerges in this witty, engaging biography by The New Yorker's Andy Logan as a prize addition to the gang of robber barons...