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...accompanying him to London, the Middle East and Moscow. Austin has also talked politics with Muskie from Thomas Point, Me., to Capitol Hill. The only heavy objects hitting Austin during this period were the puns that Muskie likes to mutter to those at his elbow (looking at a stone sarcophagus in Egypt, the Senator observed: "These Egyptians sure didn't take the afterlife for granite...
Further inside the museum lie two Egyptian sarcophagus from the Lower, or decadent Empire. There is a random collection of glassware and pottery from all over the Near East...
Most of the gaiety was supplied by the items themselves. Among the more bizarre were a marble sarcophagus once used as a bathtub by Rudolph Valentino, a year of ballet lessons, and eight hours of service by a ten-man parking team for a private party. For $475, two culture angels rented the Old Globe Theater for an evening with the intention of staging a play and cocktail party, and Shoe Magnate Harry Karl, husband of Debbie Reynolds, forked out $1,600 to rent an "executive bus" for two weeks, along with drivers, food and beverages. He plans to take...
This is Walt Kelly's weakness as a satirist; he is always shading off into whimsy and gentleness. With humorous exceptions like Mole and Deacon, or Wiley Catt and Sarcophagus MaCabre, the swamp creatures want only to live quietly and be kind, to play, and to indulge in their uniaersal passion for telling each other the oldest hoariest American chestnuts. (Even the Deacon succumbs to the weakness: Mole sombrely admonishes him, "Remember forewarned is forearmed," and Deacon sniggers "I suppose an Octopus is twice as well off?" As they walk away, Mole snorts with disgust and Deacon is tee-heeing...
...keep fit, you know"), and stomps forth to see justice done. In the process, she takes a position as maid-of-all-work in Ackenthorpe Hall, a grim old grange about an hour from London, where she not only discovers the strangled woman's body in the Egyptian sarcophagus-the one that every English country house is fitted out with-tut even grubs up two more fine fresh stiffs. And of course in the end the old bag bags the killer. Best shot: Actress Rutherford stuffed in a French maid's uniform (black bombazine with a white lace...